Evaluation: Question7

College/Music magazine
Front covers

These are the two front covers the first one being my final music magazine and the second one being the college magazine that I produced at the start of the year.

• When looking at the two front covers there is a distinctive difference in terms of technology used. With the college magazine it was the first time I had ever used Photoshop so the amount of technology used was limited. However the front cover of my music magazine there was a lot more technology used. This can be seen by the amount of different shapes, angles and colours of the items placed on the front cover. 
• The photography between the two magazines is considerably different.The taking of the college magazine image there was no real stance and shot type in mind. The image has just been placed in the center of the page which does create a good size focus point but it had very little adjustment in terms of brightness and contrast. On the other hand the music magazine has more than one image , and the main image was thought out in terms of position and lighting to bring out the best out of the image.
• There has been improvement between the layout of the magazines. the college magazine has a very basic straight forward layout, with everything being in a horizontal structure. However the music magazine layout is very fitting with the genre style of the magazine, as its busy and brightly coloured.

Contents page

• The technology used between the two has developed. On the music magazine with my skills that have developed, I was able to add a white stroke line around my images to make then stand out more and look more defined. The music magazine has less blank space which is great for the target audience I had in mind.
• The photography between the two pages is much more thought out. The college magazine was very quick random photos which had no real intention for the magazine before hand. Where as with my final music magazine contents page the images were directed to look a certain way so that they would fit better in my magazine.
• Looking at the layout for my college magazine there is a lot of blank space which doesn't really attract the student audience which it has been aimed for. Where as my music magazine is more full and compact which makes it more interesting to look at and fits with the Pop genre.