Audience feedback & evaluation

 

Audience feedback and Evaluation

 

 

Audience Feedback

Positive: ‘’ I like the image it shows how she is actually in a college the long shot shows her surroundings and it’s also quite clear which attracts readers and makes it easier for them to rad and the colours are a nice combination and its not to bright or too dark, the masthead is very clear and bold, which makes you recognise it easily.’’

‘’I like the magazine the picture catches my eye instantly!’’

‘’ I like the way the magazine is structured’

‘’It’s not overcrowded, it’s a straight forward picture which is not too busy and it shows an individual rather than a group picture to show that everyone is an individual and nobody is the same.’’

‘’ The magazine is good, I love the colours that are used.’’

‘’ I love the name of the student magazine’’

‘’The title is bold, clear and you can immediately tell that the magazine is from a college. It is easy to recognise and catch the target audience’s attention. The image clearly displays a student working and it is not interrupted with cover lines, so you can tell that the magazine is going to be for students.”

Above, shows some of the feedback that I received from my friends. According to the feedback, my masthead was done well and the picture was clear and a straight forward indicator that my magazine had a relation with a college. I’m also aware that the magazine is attractive and grabs thereader’s attention instantly, as one of the feedback states, it emphasis the relevance of each pupil by one pupil representing the college by being the main picture and being the soul of the magazine.

·        What went well?

Photography- Taking pictures was the simplest part of the whole task ad all I had to do was take relevant pictures of the things that I was going to include in my magazine. As I was taking pictures, I decided to take a variety of pictures then at the end, look at the range of pictures that I had and choose which one that I found suitable for a front cover and also one the met the requirements.  Taking the pictures was not very time consuming as it only took me about 30 minutes or even less. The process of uploading the pictures to my account was also quick. Overall, I found the photography section was fairly easy.

Image manipulation on Photoshop- Changing the picture around in Photoshop was an easy process as the picture did not require any major adjustments only resizing the picture was needed and I found that quite a complex task.

Page Layout-The layout of the magazine was easy to design, as all you had to do was to create a margin so that all the writing and images were within a certain amount of space. Creating the margins was not a long or tricky process, all I had to do was drag the corners and place it on each angle of the layout of the magazine.

Text- Including the text my magazine was not hard as on the side of the software, there was an icon which had ‘T’ on which meant you clicked that if you wanted to insert a text. The masthead was also less time consuming as I already knew what I was going to call my magazine and all I had to do was create it in text in really large fonts at put it where I thought it looked best, which is the top middle of the page. Creating cover lines was one part that I found a bit tricky, not because didn’t know how to use the text or how to move it around, but because I wasn’t sure of what cover lines that I should use, and one that would go with the whole theme of the magazine, but once I decided on what I was going to write, everything came along pretty easy, things such as the font and colour.

 

 

What do I need to improve on?

What I think I need to improve on is making sure that I use the correct image type, for example, if I was meant to use a medium shot, I use it instead of using a long shot then having to crop it down or resize it. I also need to work on some minor designs of the magazine such as the cover lines and where the barcode goes and the sizes of it.

 

Three Key points for development for main task:

·        Plan carefully: Make sure I know what I’m going write and where everything is going to go. Make sure I know the price of the magazine and all the little details.

·        Take the correct sized images- For example, long shot, medium shot etc...

·        Use my time wisely-  don’t fall off track, keep ahead of my tasks