Evaluation

Evaluation

Throughout the project of creating my school magazine I tried to use little things to make it stand out to the crowd. For example on my front page I used a box behind my title and toned down the opacity to make it slightly transparent so that the title would stand out to the reader more. I followed the general trend of the other magazines on my front cover which is basically having a large image on the background and text and exclusive articles on the front page. However on my contents page I did not follow the general trend as I based that on an image aswell which other magazines did not. This I believe gave my magazine an authentic touch which I thought would appeal to a reader. I found the fusion magazine inspiring so I vaguely based my magazine on it as I had one image on the front with text over the top of the image.

I have learnt a lot about using the technology in this project, for example I have learnt how to use the camera focus and zoom, this was crucial in my images as they had to be focused properly to have full effect. In both of the images I used I made sure that it had natural lighting in it so that it looked more professional and like the other magazines. When constructing my magazine front cover and contents page I used many tools in Photoshop, for example I had to use the cloning tool on some of my images to get rid of patchy bits on my image, also I used the duplication tool so that I could size the image up properly. I had to make sure when resizing my images that I held the shift button so that my image did not become distorted. As I stated before I also used the opacity tool, I toned it down to make my text stand out to the reader more.


Jamie Graham-Hall 12KEF