Evaluation: Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The layout of the first magazine wasn't too bad all cover stories were in a column on one side with the masthead at the top, when creating the magazine I didn't think of how to place the image and to link the text with it as you can see the image is to small and doesn't fit the page and there's too much white space, going back to the columns and the fonts used the column is canted at a strange angle and isn't straight making it look very unprofessional as I learn't later on in the project you should stick to one or two fonts through out your magazine I used 6 just on the front cover. compared with the music magazine where I used two I also thought about the use of colour on the second magazine how it would link in with your genre.
The image I choose was taken on a compact camera in a low light area shown by the yellow tinge on the image compared with that the music magazine image was taken on a SLR camera with a fixed light as you can see the resolution and clarity of the image is much better, with the college magazine i didn't fully understand what you need to do to convey the genre of the magazine if it take the college masthead off you would have know it was to do with a college I should have but in props in like a backpack or books which is meis on sen.

Theres a drastic difference in terms of everything on the two content pages the layout out of the college magazine is very poor and looks more like a poster with simple text and images to the side and a border, in the music magazine I learn't about page furniture and what is really needed on a page and how each thing has to work together like linking the text with the images shown on the right by a simple page number in the corner of each image, on the college magazine again their way too much white space on the page. the choice of fonts i found in the second magazine is vital to what message you want to convey the left is very generic and simple all one font and one colour, the right I used two fonts one large bold font for the masthead and heading and a simple easy to read font for the bulk of text. as i said with the front cover the images are very poor and do not link with the genre of the magazine, they were taken in a rush with no planning and added just because they were the best ones, with the music magazine I tried to link the images with the text with the number in the image corner I also thought about what the target audience would be interested in. I find that creating it for a target audience in mind allows you to create the best magazine for the particular genre with out stepping out of the limits.