Evaluation

Evaluation claire walsh from clairewa

Finished pieces.

This is my finished front cover, contents page and double page spread;

This is my finished front cover; since the last time I posted an image of my front cover I have added several things. I have added two more features down the left hand side of the page as it was bare; I have also added a pug which I have talked about in my last two posts. Overall, I am happy with my front cover as I feel I have used all codes and conventions needed to make it a realisic-looking product. I think the red colours in my front cover really draw attention to my audience as it is a very vibrant colour, similar to the yellow colour used. I think the picture of my star really shows the genre I am trying to convey; due to the attitude on the womans face, the bright red lipstick - trying to make a statment and the way she is opening her jacket to show more flesh.

 I feel my contents page is the weakest out of all my pieces; however I do think I have managed to use all the codes and conventions needed in a contents page. An element I really like about my contents is the way I have included my masthead; I feel this helps the front cover and contents to flow and link together. I also like the colour scheme in my contents page, it helps it all to flow therefore would help the audience to read it easily. Since the last time I posted about my contents I have added quite a lot to it including the pictures, writing and numbers.

I am pleased with my double page spread; I think the red used in the dps carries on the colour scheme therefore helps it to link with the contents and front page; the pose portrays a R'n'B genre, as similar to the front cover the woman has attitude and a lot of flesh is showing, also the heels are a statement and look like something an R'n'B singer would wear. I have managed to keep a formal and informal tone in my interview, with the person questioning being formal and my star being informal.

Front Cover

 

 

 

 

This is the pug  I made for my front cover; in my last post I showed the magazine that gave me the idea for this pug. I chose to put a blue ring around around it as the white ring underneath it blended in with the grey and didn't stand out. The reason I put the number '50' is because it is a large number, therefore would grasp attention much easier; to make it stand out even more I made the number bright yellow which also matches the yellow behind the word 'exclusive' 

Front Cover Idea

I have been thinking about what to put on the bottom right hand side of my magazine front cover, I did not want to put another feature as I feel the front cover would look boring and be overwhelmed with writing. So I decided to look around at magazines, particularly 'vibe' magazine as that is an R'n'B magazine that I have looked at quite a lot throughout making my magazine. I came across this magazine...

This is a front cover that I have shown earlier in my blog, but the thing that caught my eye on it was this; this seems as though it is a feature but styled differently, however as I do not want another feature I am thinking of doing a pug but in this style...

 

Contents

Here I am altering the brightness/contrast/radius of my photograph of the shirt and bag. I have done this because the two pictures of my models are bright and felt the picture of the shirt and bag was too dark and looked out of place. 

 



 Here I am using the rubber on paint.net to rub out some of the picture around the number due to the fact the page number '54' did not stand out enough.
In this screenshot I am using the rubber on paint.net to rub out the background of this photograph as you could clearly see there were sheets behind which looks unprofressional, I then coloured it back in white so it looks as though there is a white background.
 

Front cover

Today I have been working on my front cover; the last time I posted about my front cover, it looked like this...

Today I have added more writing on the left hand side, a web address and I have changed the price sign. The writing on the left hand side is about other stars that are featuring in the magazine, one being 'Drake' and the other being 'Rochelle'.

I chose to put 'Drake goes old school, because I find a lot of R'n'B fans, love the R'n'B classics; therefore this would be something that would catch there eye and perhaps makes them want to know  why or how.

I chose to put the feature 'Rochelle in all her Glory' because its something that would make my audience want to open the magazine. The word 'Glory' connotes to 'God' and being 'Glorious'; so my audience may think Rochelle is almost 'God-like' therefore would want to see what that feature is about.

CONTENTS

Today I am starting on my contents page, I have put the contents masthead in the corner of my contents page so the magazine links, and so my audience feel as though the magazine is continual rather than disorientated; I kept my font the same on the word 'contents' as the font used on my front cover for the same reason.

Once I had added my photograph in, I tried out a background that might add excitement to my contents rather than having it plain. This is one of the backgrounds I tried out; I realised I did not want a background behind my model as it looked odd on the contents page.