Audience Feedback- Emma Parkinson

Tahler...

Your contents page for your prelim task needs some improvement as the colours clash.
In order to improve this for your final project i suggest you look at a real magazine to find out what the generic conventions are .

:D

Love Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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Audience Feedback From Andrew Harrison

Good work all around, the front cover, contents page and double page spread all look very realistic, and i like the use of filters and lots of colour; features which would be present in a magazine which uses the same genre's as yours.
The magazine has a good consistent theme.
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Audience Feedback- From Emma Parkinson

Heyy :D

You're front cover is awesome :)
If it was in a shop, on a shelf i would buy it :)
it looks really professional and realistic in comparison to the magazines out there now.

Your housestyle colours/font are consistant throughout your front cover, contents page and double page spread
This is important as it creates the realistic effect :D

Yaaayyyy
Well Doneeeeeee :D
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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.

DISTRIBUTION

Having such a small and local magazine i have decided that the best way to start distributing my magazine would be through another. In this case i have chose Kerrang my reasons for this are simple it will give FUTURE SHOCK plenty of publicity and a chance to get in the public eye. If this proves to be a success it will then be stable enough to stand on its own and be part of Bauer as an official product.

FINAL

FAIL
One aspect i struggled with was the focus on the camera, with this i had to practice several times before getting one without a blur. This occured on a regular basis untill the tripod stand was introduced to me when taking ones for my actual magazine pages.

However sorting the problem this task helped of getting an exsisting band picture and ordering the actors into the needed positions this also improved my people skills and gave me confidence when taking ones for FUTURE SHOCK

As you can see the quality of two are obvious the one to my left the faces look all disorientated and lack facial detail. The top image is much more clearer and detailed.