Evaluation

Overall, I really enjoyed this task due to it gave me a warm for editing magazines which is good for both the main task and my future career – due to, desiring to be a journalist so one day could go down the magazine industry. It has helped me to recognize and understand what people want to find in a magazine and the thought process behind constructing a magazine. Each derail has to be relevant, effective and comforting for the target audience.

As soon as I heard the task, I constructed my idea for the front cover key image and decided what I wanted my magazine to look like. When visualizing my idea, I didn’t think that it would have been that much of a challenge to create it. However, this was not the case. When constructing the key image, it took longer than I thought due to the fact the paper wasn’t falling like I wanted it too. The paper needed to look like it was floating like it had just been thrown up in the air because it is then like the traditional end of school, bell ringing theme. Eventually, I gained the image I wanted but with less pieces of paper, which I then copied and pasted, some of the other pieces from the other pictures and morphed them into the image I decided to use for the final image.

The house style for the magazine was easy to come up with, as I wanted to keep it sweet and simple to then attract the target audience. The simpleness from the magazine is then easy to read which younger children will then want to read what the magazine has to offer. Purple, is also a very middle colour that can be used for both girls and boys and will attract both.

The contents page went wrong. The idea I had in my mind didn’t work out, at all but I was resilient and tried multiple times in order to get it right but unfortunately, still didn’t work out. Therefore, I decided to add all of the features to the magazine but used it as a learning mechanism instead using it to learn not what I should do and build a contents page that I know I will thoroughly like.

To conclude, the challenge was fun to complete and it allowed me to prepare for the main task and except the problems I could face on the way.