Friday, 8 May 2015

Post Evaluation Production

Front cover: This is my final production of my front cover, i have made changes to layout and different aspects of my front cover. Firstly I have made changes to to my main image. The first ever draft of my front cover had a stretched out front cover which i changed by adding a border around my front cover of my magazine going against conventions of house music magazines however after doing further research after carrying out my evaluation I have decided to follow conventions by having a main image that fills the entire page. It is a way so that my artists head could go slightly over the mastehad of my magazine. This is a huge convention to follow on the front cover of a house music magazine and many other genres too use this feature. It is a way of making my artists the main subject of the front cover. I think ti makes my front cover appear more professional and the quality has been massively improved where eveyrhting fits into place. I have improve4d the quality of the equalisers on my masthead by sharpening them even more and using the magic wand tool to erase any white sections this has massively increased the quality of my mtashead making it appear more attractive and appealing. I have moved my coverlines so that they are on the one side of the page as i want my artist to be the main subject of my front cover, with anything covering her it will only affect this. The coverline above my anchorage text i have changed by changing it to exclusive interview instead of 2 page spread as i felt this sounded more professional. I have improved the plug of my magazine by creating a plug that was more fit to my genre. Using a plug that hangs on the edge of my front cover follows conventions of magazines of different genres which i found from doing further research. I have created this plug that is almost like a flag to create a more interesting design, i have used the same information however i have added a page number to it too so that readers view it as accessible. I have moved my barcode and date to the left coroner, adding in the nocturnal website too. I have used this because it is a way of allowing my music magazine to expand into other industry's such as the Internet. By doing this i can widen my audience and appeal to my audience more. These 3 aspects also looked better placed here. The text above my masthead that was "the uks dance and clubbing magazine to read" has been improved by saying "the Uk's No.1 house music magazine" as i think this represents my magazine better, and sounds more professional.  
 
Contents page: I have made improvements to my contents page by adding and altering certain aspects which were not explained in much detail since my last blog post on my contents page. The nocturnal logo has been added to my contents page in order to make my audience more aware of my magazine. I have added the date to m,y contents page. I have changed the layout by moving the image of student Jacob to the left corner in order to add a different feature on my artist. This is so that readers are really starting to get to know Vicky G all the way through my magazine as in my previous contents page in my evaluation their was only an image of her and a page number. I have changed text colour for the main features and kept a different and darker colour font for the other features in my magazine in order to make my layout clearer and also easier to read.

Double page spread:
Since my last blog spot on my double page spread I have moved my pull quote so that it doesn't cover Vicky G in order to make her the main subject, I don't want anything to get in the way of the artists face.

Improvements to double page spread

I have improved my double page spread by altering the colour scheme so that the colour scheme of my double page spread follows the front cover and my contents page. I have used a blue/pastel colour in order to follow the colour theme and i have used the same yellow previously used for both my front cover and my contents page. I have also changed the date on my magazine as it was different to the contents page and my front cover.

Improvements to my contents page

I have made improvements to the contents page of my magazine, i have changed the layout of my magazine in order to include more content, I have also changed the font colour of all of my features so that firstly the main features are seperate to the normal features and so that the text is more clear for my readers to read.

Improvements to my front cover

I have improved my front cover by making the text larger on my coverlines, I have moved some of my coverlines over, i have also changed the plug on my magazine in order for it to suit the genre of my music magazine more. I have also moved the barcode of my magazine and added a wesbite to the front cover too. I have also improved the quality of some of the equalisers in my masthead in order for my magazine to look more professional.

Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progession from it to your full product?

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract your audience?