Evaluation
• How does your finished product compare to your design?
My finished front cover is very different from my original block design. I attempted to follow the block design but as I built up the front cover, it didn’t look like an average teenage magazine, it also didn’t follow the right conventions. I adapted it to try and follow the conventions, and changed it vastly and then decided to follow the Teen Vogue style. Which worked well, so this gave me my final front cover design.
• How has technology (computer, digital, camera, printer) helped you turn your design into a real product?
Technology has helped me vastly throughout this product. The Internet has helped me research what normal, everyday teenage magazines and help adapt it in to my design. Photoshop has given me vast amounts of help e.g. different font styles, the choice of whether to make pictures seem like Polaroid pictures etc. I took the main image at my 16th birthday party, and as I looked through my pictures to find one for my media cover, I can across this one and realised that this one would look good on the front.
• Do you feel that your product is suitable for target audience?
I think my product is suitable for the target audience. The target audience of my product is teenagers, so I studied current teenager magazine covers such as Mizz, Teen Vogue and Shout. I used these as a guide to how to present mine, in a way that teenagers would like, and relate to. This is how I ended up with my final product.
• Describe two challenges you have overcome.
I have thought of different magazine names and different headings for my magazine and I have also had to move things around as in certain positions it didn't look right so I had to move them to improve my overall mark.
• Describe the technical skills you have gained.
I have learnt how to experiment with different effects, for example, shadows and bevels, and tools such as the magic wand and layer changing within Photoshop to see what works and what doesn’t, this helps develop my understanding of building magazine covers. I experimented with vast amounts of shadows and bevels for my title and the pugs to see what looked best and to see what didn’t work. This helped me a lot. I also used the magic wand to select the parts of the images that I wanted and that I didn’t want to make the cover look better.