Evaluation Questions - Draft

Feedback

Today, I presented my magazine to my peers and presented them with a feedback sheet to give their opinions. I also asked them to discuss some questions.
From this, I discovered several things.

• The sell lines were a particularly important issue. Five people believed that the sell lines detracted from the cover stars, four noted that I should rethink the layout. During the discussion, I discovered that people found my original sell line layout much more effective than my new layout.
• Positive feedback was that six people believed my sell lines to be appropriate for the genre.
• When asked to rate my contents page images on a scale from 1-5 (1 being not and 5 being very effective), I got results mostly of 4s and 5s, with only one 3.
• It became resoundingly clear that my contents page was the strongest part of my work, as 8 people selected this on the feedback sheet. There were more mixed results when asked to choose the weakest part of my work, however the double page spreads seemed to be in the majority.
• Images were by far my strongest element, with all 12 of the people that filled in the feedback sheet selecting this.
• Text seemed to be referred to as the weakest element, however it seemed that people were referring mostly to the layout of the text. This was discussed during the presentation.
• I finally asked people how effective my integration of social media was. This mostly scored 5 (very effective), with a few 4s and one 3.

Overall I recieved quite a positive response to my magazine and have been given many useful pointers for improvement.

Magazine Draft 2

Magazine First Draft

Production Log - Selecting and Editing Images

Over the past week, I have been selecting images for my magazine and editing them in photoshop. This has involved removing white studio backgrounds, cropping, removing blemishes and changing the colour/style of the photo.

Before

After

 

Above is a before and after of one of my contents page images. From this image I removed blemishes and smoothed the face. I then placed a black and white filter on to the photograph and cropped it to the size shown above. I then darkened the colour of the lips and the area around the eyes to suggest she has had make-up put on her.

Magazine Draft

 

When drafting my magazine in InDesign, I used boxes to create a layout for my magazine. This will be my guide when creating my final magazine, also in InDesign.

 

Design Sketches

Above are a collection of images of sketches I have done to start considering the layout of my magazine.