Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Improving my work

I had to make many improvements to my work because I had so many problems with the production of it. There were only small changes I had to make with my analysis work, however there was a lot of things I needed to redo for my actually magazine, so I started again with most of it because the layout and colours I had used didnt really work and did not fit the genre of RnB. I had to choose a different colour scheme, which I found really hard but managed to come up with an idea, from this I found it much easier to do the colour scheme for the whole magazine whereas before it was just random.
I then improved the layout because there were a few problems with that and after that I had to do the appendices of my work, here I put my first draft and the original images which I had changed within my work.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Evaluation

Over christmas I had to work on my evaluation, there are 7 questions which I answered and I had to explain all the decisions which I made within my magazine. This is a very hard thing to do and it makes you think about the reasons behind the decisions and that maybe there would have been a better way of doing something so that it follows the conventions of an RnB magazine.
I changed the age range for my magazine, because now that I have made the draft, I think that it would be better for a younger audience so I lowered the target audience to 14-17, I think that more people from this target audience will buy it than from my original one. The evaluation really made me think about my magazine and reconsider the colour scheme of it because I realised that it did not really follow the conventions of an RnB magazine and when I got my draft back, it said this too. There are other things which I needed to improve to get a higher grade because although there weren't many problems with the my analysis work apart from a few little things, my lack of ablity with photoshop and my problems with the colour schemes and a few problems with the layout meant that I had to come up with some better ideas. I also chose to redo my pictures to make them follow the conventions a bit better.
There was a lot of work which I needed to do with my coursework and with just over a week to go I am going to have to work very hard to try and get it done to a standard which I'm happy with and which will get me a good grade. Below is my evaluation.