Evaluation Task 7





For the front cover i have learnt that the use of the same font for all of the cover lines makes the page seem a bit simple and boring and also the use of font used can determine whether or not it is good.  for my preliminary front cover the font i used, i feel now is not good as it has curvy edges on the letters and this just doesnt fit well with a magazie cover, whereas now on my proper front cover i have used more than one font which are all easy to read and not boring, as well as being good at standing out and not curvy, they are more straight and this makes the page look a whole lot better.  for the masthead, on my preliminary, i put in a font i feel now would still be a good font to use as it is big and easy to read, however, the colour i used for it is not in anyway good at all and would never be seen on a magazine, this is because i thought the effect it has would make it look good, however magazines now tend to have just one plain colour and still look good, and so for my proper front cover i chose a bold font with a yellow colour which stood out amongst the rest of the page, and also i made the E bigger to empahsise the mastheads dominance.  for the background colour, for my preliminary i used a gradient which i know now is not a good thing to use as most magazines use a white background anyway and so for my proper front cover i have just used a white background.  i have learnt that you shouldnt really cut out parts of a body on the photo which i have done on my preliminary, where his hands have been left out and so for my proper cover i applied this and left in everything but waist down which alot of magazine today have and so i felt that i learnt from my mistakes on this one.  for the cover lines, my preliminary had nowhere near enough, as there was still alot of space which needed filling up and even though i had lined them up well i still needed to include more which would make the page look alot better, for my proper cover however, i have filled up all the spaces where there were spaces and have plenty of cover lines suitable for a music magazine and so i have learnt alot from this. 

For the contents page i have learnt how to position things correctly.  firstly for my preliminary contents page i had the heading in the correct place, but again like the front cover it had the wrong colour and so now i have changed it to a better, bolder font, also with a little background surrounding it, to make it stand out.  also the actual contents i ad put in wasnt really eanough and it did cover quite to many pages e.g. the exclusive interview was from pages 12-15, which is not really ever going to be that long for any magazine and now i have learnt from this and applied it to my proper contents page where all the articles are to be on one page except the main article which is over a double page.  also the positioning of the articles in the contents need to be more spread out and have more added to them, which i have now done in my proper one, where i have had it coming all the way down the rigt side of the page and also included a band index for extra content on part of the left of the page.  for the fonts of the text, it is again the same as the front cover on the preliminary which does show good continuity however it is thsame and like i said before, the font is not a good one to use because of the curved letters and so now i have learnt from this and used a better font which is also a black colour and easier to read.  for the photos on my preliminary contents page i had placed the ne of the canteen in line with the text which showed good positioning, although it wuld have looked better with a border or something surrunding it, as well as with the two pictures of te two lads at the bottom of the page, and so for my proper contents page, i have created a border for each image and had the artists popping out of them for good style and effect.  also for the two lads, i have not cut them out very well as they both had curly hair which i found difficult to cut around, and for the lad on the right, the photo i took of him i did not include his whole of the top of his head and so when it came to cutting out and editing, i had to stretch his head and cut around it more circularly to try and shape it again, and this kind of failed and so i learnt from this and have now been able to cut out images alot better, and also, the images i have taken have included wole body parts e.g. the head, so that i dont have any trouble in the editing.  again for the background like the front cover of my preliminary i used a gradient which is not a good look and so again i have used a white background for my proper contents and it looks a whole lot better than if i were to use a gradient.