Skills Development

Looking back at the preliminary task I feel the standard of my work has improved greatly. I feel that my work now looks more professional as I feel more comfortable using Photoshop, therefore I was able to use more effects. I do feel that some parts of my music magazine still need to be improved upon however, such as the font on the double page spread that I used for the interview. I feel that since I made the changes to the photograph there are some parts that are hard to read. I would like to change the colour of the font, or decrease the size of the photograph slightly so the dark blue and purple don’t overlap. I would also like to add more the contents page. I feel that there is a lot of empty space that doesn’t fit in properly with the rest of the magazine, which is quite busy and loud.
I think that this is better for appealing to the intended audience too, as the effects I used on the preliminary task were very basic, which made the magazine look like it was aimed at a much younger audience than college students. There was much more research needed for this magazine, and I also had to study a particular group of people instead of just students in general, which I found much harder. As this is designed to be a nationwide magazine the need for attention for detail is much more than that of the college magazine, as it will have a much larger audience you are trying to impress. The college magazine would have been aimed at a single college, and therefore didn’t need to be as professional as the music magazine. It would also not have been competing against other magazines as the music magazine would be.
I feel that there are still some parts of my music magazine that I could improve on but I think it is much more successful than my college magazine, and is successful in serving it’s purpose.