VIBE Magazine - Press-Pack Analysis

3 & 4 - Preliminary Task + Audience Feedback

 

 

Evaluation

I felt that the creation of this college magazine cover allowed me to develop and enhance my skills at using Adobe Photoshop and Indesign. This was useful as I had not previously used Adobe InDesign and I needed some time to adapt to the slightly different interface and tools compared to that of Photoshop.

I tried to keep a simple colour scheme consisting of Orange/Purple/White/Grey as I feel these colours compliment each other nicely without clashing.

Feedback

The feedback from my peers was mostly positive regarding the magazine although they felt some improvements could be made. Notable suggestions included increasing Masthead size whilst cutting down on the image editing used on the model. The colour scheme was an object of praise.

Yasir Daoud - "Really good for first attempt

Picture would have looked better if it wasnt blurred, and if you made the Masthead a bit bigger it would look much better
Otherwise its really good"

Mariam Turay - "i like you magazine front cover, it looks very sophicated and i also like the colour scheme,but i think that the image of your model is too edited."

2 - Media Case Studies

Media case study from Kishan Purohit

1 - Production Schedule

Here is my production schedule for the various pieces of my Portfolio. It will allow me to both manage and make better use of the time I have available.

Induction Task - Music Piracy - Double Page Spread

Media Studies - Evaluation

 I was able to research and view various other magazine double page spreads using Google. I felt that research was one of my strong points as I knew what to look for and was able to look for inspiration for my own piece of work. I feel my journalistic skills have enabled me to make some good arguments, although I feel I could have written more.

 feel I picked up the basics of InDesign reasonable quickly, as the UI is similar to Adobe Photoshop, and although they have different functions, the basic toolset was similar. I feel development of my InDesign skills would enable me to channel my creativity further and set a more professional tone to my magazine.

My web publishing skills were the most efficient as it is something I have experience with in the past. It was made easier due to the fact I already had a G-Mail account set up, thus shortening the process of starting up a blogger account.