Evaluation

Final Magazine

Process: Removing The Background

 This is a video presenting how I was able to remove the background from the images I took of my model Vanessa. In this example, I removed the background of my cover image on Photoshop, using a selection of various tool inluding the 'Magic Wand Tool' and the 'Eraser Tool'. As you can see, it was clearly very easy to do and proved to be beneficial for the duration of my project. The skills I have learnt on Photoshop will also help me in the future with other media related products and similar software.

Final Cover Comparison

 These are further improvements I made of my music magazine front cover. In my 'Cover Drafts' post which I posted before, I presented the transformation of my cover page - from my sketch version to the third draft however I made it clear at the end of the post that I still needed to make improvements in order to create the best cover I possible could. These are two final drafts of my magazine cover with the absolute final version at the bottom. You can see that even after many versions of my cover, I still continued to make significant changes whether it was the font/size of the sell lines, adding extra sell lines, making the image bigger or even changing my magazine's name. As I have mentioned before in my production dairies, when improving my magazine I changed many of the serif fonts to sans-serif fonts which you can clearly see from the two images above. I also created the sell line 'Free Lawson Poster Inside' which I personally believe is another sell line that can attract my target audience. Overall, I am now happy with my final front cover even if it required many improvements and a variety of different ideas.

Production Diary

01/03/14 - Finishing My Project

 Today and over the past week, I have been constantly improving my magazine and finishing off my evaluation - this includes copying my answers to the questions in a magazine format and adding pictures of where I got my ideas from, what software I used, comparisons and extra pictures of my model . I am also making sure every other post is complete and up to standard. I have also made a post of my audience feedback to show what they liked about my magazine and what I have also done to improve it in order to create my final draft magazine. Overall, I am now happy with my completed magazine as I think it looks realistic, interesting and represents the indie genre well.

Audience Feedback

 This is the feedback I gained from my target audience who assessed my magazine and told me what they thought were the best parts as well as what I could improve. These results were from a survey I created on the website 'Survey Monkey' where my audience answered questions about my magazine. I then took the responses on board, carrying out any final improvements I could to make my magazine better plus creating this survey was also an opportunity to present what people thought about my product and how successful it might be.

Production Diary

20/02/14 - Final Touches To My Magazine

 As it is leading up to the deadline date, I have been focusing on how to make my magazine look as professional as it can. I have done this by looking at all of my survey responses I have collected from my 'Audience Feedback' survey over time and also taking into consideration my teacher's feedback he gave me before.
 Some of my improvements included changing some of the fonts from serif fonts to sans-serif as these are more common in magazines. I have also made some of my images and pull out quotes larger in order to change the look/layout of my magazine because this was one of the main aspects my audience touched on that I needed to improve. Furthermore, I have also added more box out texts to separate some of my article's text and to make it look more like a realistic and interesting magazine.