Audience Feedback
I asked 12 people from Leyton College what they thought about my magazine and this is mostly the feedback that I got from all of them.
What do you like
about the college front cover and contents page?
·
The layout is clear, consistent and well laid
out
·
You can easily tell it’s a college magazine
·
The colour scheme runs throughout both pages
What do I need to
improve on?
·
It is hard to read some parts of the text.
·
Make sure the background colour and text colours
blend well but can still see them
·
The images look slightly rushed and not cleverly
thought out
Preliminary Task Evaluation
I think that my photography went
well. This is because my models were easy to work with and co-operated well
with what I asked them to do. Furthermore I had no troubles using the cameras
because I knew how to use them and also adapted well with them. I had to crop
the main image into a mid-shot which I had a little bit of trouble with at
first but I played around with Photoshop so that I knew what to do in the
future. Organising the layout of the front cover and the contents page was no
trouble because I had planned the layout well so I knew where everything was
going to be placed on the pages. Also the design for the front cover is not
over complicated and crowded so it was easy to decide on where to lay
everything out,
However using InDesign was tricky
for me in the beginning. Some of the tools were different to what I had used on
Photoshop so I again had to practice using the software so that I became
comfortable with it. I also had trouble
re-sizing images on InDesign because originally everytime I resized an image it
would crop it instead of make it smaller. This continued to occur until I
changed one of the resizing options. Coming up with a title for the magazine
was a little bit of a struggle because I wanted it to be easy to remember and
recognise but original at the same time. I ended up using “LSC Weekly” because
it was short, snappy and easy to remember. I found that creating my cover-lines
was a challenge because I was not used to journalism. I had to think about good
cover lines to use because the ones I had were unoriginal, boring and generic.
I wanted to make them appeal to college students so I used feedback from them
to help me with this.
I need to improve on my planning
in terms of image shots because when I was taking the pictures for the college
magazine I had to improvise so I didn’t really have a clear idea of what I was
doing. Also during my feedback, many people said that the images looked rushed
and weren’t well thought/planned out. I also need to improve on the colours
that I use because the colours I used for the LSC Weekly blended in according
to my peers who gave me feedback. I will also make the text bigger so that it
is easier to read.
When producing my music magazine,
three areas for improvement are:
· Image Shots – I need to think about which shot
will be most appropriate for the music magazine and how it will complement the
layout. I need to plan this before I actually take the images.
· Time – I need to divide my time properly because
I spent more time taking the images for the LSC Weekly magazine then I did
planning them which means I had to improvise a lot more then I should have.
· Planning – I need to plan the colours more
appropriately and the shots of images.
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