Evaluation

After completing my final task for my AS Media portfolio I am now going to evaluate what I have produced, how and why I produced my music magazine. This is the evaluation stage of my task. I have answered seven questions concerning my music magazine, what I have learnt and looking back at my preliminary task. 

Each question is displayed on a different format to show that I have learnt many different techniques while producing this media product.

FINAL PIECE - double page spread

This is my final piece of my music magazines double page spread.

FINAL PIECE - contents page

This image shows my final contents page.

 

 

FINAL PIECE - front cover

This is my final piece - the front cover. I have made many improvements and changes over the construction of the cover. The style, design and colourings have drastically changed since my first draft.

 

+ research

On my DPS I decided to include social media as an aspect to include the audience in the interview. So I used twitter to tweet questions which would usually be asked in a Q&A on twitter:

1. What is the most trouble you’ve ever gotten into? #askellen #elemantq+a
2. What are the five things you can’t live without? #askellen #elemantq
3. What’s your motto or the advice you live by? #askellen
4. What is your favourite song ever? And why?  #askellen #elemantq+a
5. If you could go open up for any artist on tour right now who would it be? #askellen

Construction work - front cover, contents, dps

This powerpoint includes my further construction  work while I have been working and editing my magazine. 

Second draft - front cover

This is my second draft of my front cover of my music magazine - as you can see I have made a lot of improvements some of which were guided by the audience feedback I gained. I have kept the same main image as I like the image a lot (it was my favourite from the photoshoot) and plus the feedback did praise the image. 

Further changes will be made to my front cover as I will be using real-life music magazines and also my peers music magazine projects to gain inspiration and tips to achieve a professional music magazine which reach the standards of my target audience and also to the standard I want my magazine to be.

Audience feedback - first drafts

To gain audience feedback for the first draft of my front cover, contents page and double page spread I printed off the pages and showed them to a number of students who then commented on the page what needed fixing, their thoughts and what their dislikes were. 

This activity was important to carry out as I have learnt a lot from it and I can see where changes and improvements need to be made. 

I will continue to work on my magazine - improvements following these guidelines and comments will be made to ensure the magazine reaches my target audiences standards. 

Draft - DPS

This image shows my first draft for my double page spread which will feature in my magazine. I feel that this page still needs a lot of work and so I want to continue my research into music magazine double page spreads to ensure my dps follows the common conventions of a dps. I will gain audience feedback of this first draft to ensure the text is interesting for the readers. 

Draft - contents page

This is my first dfraft of my contents page - Ii worked on InDesign to complete this page and so I am still learning how to use the programme as I continue to edit and design the contents page. As this is my first draft I am willing to change features after I gain some audience feedback. 

Contents page construction

This powerpoint hightlights the construction of my contents page. Throughout the process of producing and designing my contents page I took pictures of what I was doing so that I could explain my decisions and reasoning's.