From looking at my pleniminary task I am able to evaluate how my skills have improved and how my knowledge of magazines has widened. As we can see on the front cover I designed for a school magazine there is a lot of empty space and the sell-lines are catchy, yet not large enough or interesting enough to engage the audience. The front cover simply does not have enough to fill. Although the image was appropriate for the magazine, the shot could of been closer to the model, but a clear eye-line match was shown. I have also kept a clear 4 pallete colour scheme of red,green,grey and black and used relative font to school related genres.
Comparing this to my final product front cover my progress can be seen clearly. I have made the image more clear and emotionally engaging with the audience/readers. The cover also looks my proffesional with the use of photoshop I was able to edit the model to make it look more clear, the framing of the image also makes a substantial difference. From my pleniminary task I learnt that having some blank space can be acceptable, in the case of my main product, I thought the image was powerful enough to overfill the blank space and therefore only wanted to include few sell-lines.
Comparing this to my final product front cover my progress can be seen clearly. I have made the image more clear and emotionally engaging with the audience/readers. The cover also looks my proffesional with the use of photoshop I was able to edit the model to make it look more clear, the framing of the image also makes a substantial difference. From my pleniminary task I learnt that having some blank space can be acceptable, in the case of my main product, I thought the image was powerful enough to overfill the blank space and therefore only wanted to include few sell-lines.
For the contents page I showed significant improvement and gained a higher knowlege of the basic conventions a magazine contents needs to include. Although images were suitable on both tasks the pleniminary task showed the contents page with a lot of empty space, I improved this in my final product by filling the page and making sure that there was no gaps. I used relative,readable font in the final task and also included consistency with my contents and front page - although this could of been improved upon in my pleniminary task.
