My prelim task helped me in many ways, above is both my college and music magazine. Using Adobe Photo for both it had advantages and yet disadvantages. Following the conventions for both it was hard to show my skills for example text editing and advertisement as the college magazine was much more suttel and formal, however this gave me a chance to play around with styles of magazines and got me thinking about what the product was trying to achieve and visually look like.

For example when taking my pictures my prelim task helped my photography on FUTURE SHOCK the main reasons for this was the fact that i understood the stereotypical facial expressions and body language of the two which added verisimilitude. In this case my TRC magazine had the student looking knowledgeable and interested in his own education.

From my draft to my final i have made several changes to add finishing touches to my project. One thing was the absence of pictures which i felt made my draft look too cluttered and crammed, therefore i had just two pictures at the bottom. On the other hand i felt my draft lacked sell lines therefore putting more banners on to make my magazine seem fuller.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

Audience feedback was really useful to me and made me aware of my strengths and weaknesses.

The positive feedback was helpful in the sense that i had achieved at making my magazine exciting and busy on page. Also the comment on colour was really reasurising as this was one factor which i needed to adress to my target audience and the best way to promote such a niche genre.

The weaknesses were equally as important and looking back realsied the colours did crash together on my prelim and the idea of having the masthead themed throughout was inapropiate, if i were to do this again i would have just kept the text colour as white. Without any comments i wouldnt be able to learn from my mistakes and relise i had done wrong. If i were to do these pages again these would be aspects i would deffinately take into account and change.