Evaluation - Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Final product

Front Cover

Contents page

Double page spread

Contents update

Today I have edited pictures and put my chosen one onto my contents page, however I need to put a cover line with the picture and change some of the cover lines from the front cover to link to the big images on the contents.

Editing Contents

Edited Image 1

Original Image 1

Edited image 2

Original image 2

I edited these pictures on serif photo plus by cropping them and using the curves tool, I also used the brightness and contrast tool to make the images brighter. Also in the second image I edited out the plug by using the clone tool to make a less distracting background.

Image Editing

Today I edited a picture for my double page spread:

Before:

After:

I think that the edited image is better, I am going to use this image on the double page spread to try and show more of a variation of camera shots as most of them are close ups.

Mrs D

Well done for starting on the evaluation. Your construction is coming along nicely. Make sure you add page numbers to your DPS and your larger font on your front cover is featured in your contents page. Make sure you have more variety of shot distances when you take more images. Keep up the good work.

Today I have been editing a picture to put into my magazine

Before:














After:

I have edited this image, however I am not too sure that I am going to include it as the angle is strange without a background and her hands look odd. I do not think I am going to use this image despite the editing.

Update

Over this weekend I have drafted a few evaluations for my front cover and contents page. I  will post when my double page spread evaluation is done.

Audience Feedback 1

Contents page change

Today, I have changed my contents page, I have added new images, fonts and font sizes, I have also added new articles.

Front cover update

Today, I have changed the front cover by adding new fonts and font sizes and a new image to try and make the front cover more eye catching.

Audience Feedback - Recording

Today I asked a couple of people about what I could improve on my magazine, I also recorded their responses but I need to edit the recording before I upload it. I plan to upload my response next week.

DPS changes

Today, I have changed my double page spread design to make it more appealing to my audience.I changed some of the fonts, added more pull quotes and images and this should appeal to my audience of females as the fonts are quite girly and also the colours still fit into my house themes.

Front cover changes

Old Front Cover:

As I have changed the genre of my magazine, I have changed the name and slogan on my magazine, I have also put in new music artists and band names as the genre has changed. 

I feel the changed front cover better suits the pop genre as the appearance of the girl on the front cover has more of a pop feel than a rock/pop feel. Also the name 'Mirrors' can link into the 'fashionable' theme of the magazine. It also links to the female audience as they stereotypically spend a lot of time in the mirror.

Changed:

11th March

Today I have printed off my 3 different pages, my front cover, contents and double page spread and have looked at how I can improve on each of them.
For my front cover I plan to change my magazine name, as I have changed my genre, and the bands that feature on the front cover need to change to a pop genre. I could also add a slogan to my front cover, also I have a date on it twice.
For the contents page, I need to change the names to pop artists and put my page numbers in order, I could also add more articles to fill the page more. I am also going to re-take my images and add one or two more to the contents page. I have also made a mistake with the band names, but as I am changing the band names, they will change on both the front cover and contents page.
For the double page spread, I could make the pull quote bigger and the main text slightly smaller. I also need to add page numbers, and could match the title to the cover story fonts on the front page. OR I could pull the image over one page and make my text smaller, it would then fill the left page more and make less of a space at the top of the page. I could also put the pull quote on top of the image on the right.

Mrs D

Well done for hitting your deadline. I like the 'feel' of the dps. Some gaps at the bottom and you need page numbers. There is a lot of text here - this could be cut slightly. Keep up the good work.

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