Evaluation

Media coursework evaluation

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Final Pieces.

There's been alot of uploading problems but finally my final pieces have been edited and uploaded.

Evaluation.

Changes made to the magazine

My teacher suggested that he font colour and the use of capital letters were not particularly in keeping with the conventions of a music magazine. For this reason, the article underwent the changes which can be seen below.

Another change applied to my magazine was the alterations which I made to the main image on my front cover. As the picture was taken using a camera flash, the image itself initially came out quite bright and whilst I don't feel that this detracted from the actual image in any way, it was still not in keeping with the tone and style of a contemporary music magazine. Also, to keep the actual image within the same tone and style of the article itself which deals with 'Ladette's' it wouldn't be approprate to have a bright picture, reflective of airbushed pictures of female popstars. For this reason, I felt it neccessary to make the lighting of the picture slightly darker so that the picture itself had an edgier feel. To do this I made the contrast of the picture higher, as shown below.

Magazine

I decided to keep the colour blue and black throughout the contents and cover. I also cut out all 'blocking' in my magazine to try and make it look tidier. When taking the photos for my front cover, I attempted to get Rosie to look 'bored' which fits in with the quote that she is not bothered with what people think. I edited the photos to make an 'eerie' kind of look.

Photos for my contents.

For my contents I decided it would look more professional and interesting to have more photos but make them smaller. This way I can keep the layout of the contents. The photos I have at the moment need to be edited and I think that I would liek to have the photos in black and white. When editing them, I am going to make two versions. One with the photos in black and white and one with the photos in colour.

Contents Idea.

I like the idea of having this kind of layout for the bottom of my contents page, as this will link into the main artist on the front cover. However, I think these colours are irrelevant to the ones i plan on having throughout. Therefore I am going to do this again but in the colours that will be on my contents/front cover.