Task 4: Preliminary Task Audience Feedback & Evaluation

Evaluation for Task Three

For my front cover, I believe that this was a really good piece of work. The image I for used the front cover was taken at a medium shot, which was specifically required for me to do. As I had to construct the front cover on photoshop, I had to manipulate the image, making it fit the actual A4 page. Furthermore, my cover lines and my masthead was done really well as it complemented the overall colour scheme and the masthead was the largest writing on the page, which is typically found in all existing magazines. I also included the cost and a barcode on my front cover. What I need to improve  for my front cover is the colour scheme. Typically in existing magazines, they normally use a three coloured colour scheme which creates a consistent house style, however I have only used two colours, which are red and white. Moreover, I need to improve the general layout of the front cover as I believe that the writing is quite close together; I should used more of the space and play around with different font sizes.
 For my contents page, I believe that my design was quite simple, but it was straight to the point as it did not have to much colours within it to distract the reader. It follows the same colour scheme as the front cover (red and white), but the contents page does contain black within its colour scheme. In doing this task i had to work on InDesign, which was pretty easy to handle and operate, which allowed me to work efficiently and create my contents page. The things that I need to improve on my contents page is the font style, the font for the contents page and the front cover are different, which is a problem as all font needs to be consistent- This was highlighted by my feedback partner. Also, for future projects I need to improve the quality of my images as some images look slightly stretched and some look squashed. Overall I believe this was a good piece of work as I had a clear plan which i followed which allowed me to create this front cover and contents page.

Three points to improve:
- Use more of the given space
- Always have a three coloured colour scheme
- Get more practice of using photoshop