Evaluation

Considering this pliminary task was my first major piece of coursework, I feel I did quite well in terms of presentation and planning. I found it hard finding school magazine covers in the beginning but after a while I realised different processes into finding them. Using google, I would search 'school magazines PDF' and there would be lots of results. My flatplans are all a little different to my final cover but I have taken techniques and bits of presentation from each one. As photography is a huge hobby and interest of mine, I particularly enjoyed shooting for the magazine and editing the images. I used Photoshop to edit them, creating professional looking photos and making them look perfect and affective. On the shoot, I explored the school and took many images of students working (experimented with different subjects) and some of the activities that were taking place on that day (such as the Christmas Fair and the opening of the new astroturf). I borrow an iMac during the Christmas Half Term so that I had the facilities to create my magazine cover on the programme, Pages. I enjoyed designing my front cover because I like the design and presentation side to media, such as magazines and CD covers etc. I was also quite proud of the title I came up with, I think 'Over to You' is a very relevant and appropriate name for a school magazine. I decided to do an audience research at the end of the process to see if it would be successful in the real world. The result was that it would be successful.