Media Evaluation Question 7

 

Looking at my preliminary task and comparing it to my final media product it’s easy to say that my magazine production skills have improved. My Music Magazine cover is a large improvement compared to the Preliminary Cover, the layout has improved, a better selection of fonts have been used etc. overall it looks miles better.

If you look at my two mastheads, you’d have noticed that in my Preliminary task, all I did was use a random font and just edited the size and made it bold. Where as in my Final product I have selected a font from the CSI drama show, enlarged it as well as adding a green stroke around the lettering making it appear more visible and eye-catching.
There are multiple differences in my Preliminary task and my final Media Product but there are also some similarities. They both have the same modes of address and they both have a small picture followed by a cover line. It’s fair to say that the conventional devices that I have used in my Preliminary task cover looks as if it was from a newspaper because of the way everything is aligned and the font I’ve used looks too formal and it doesn’t go well with the informal appearance of the masthead.

The Contents page of my preliminary task is terrible compared to my Music Magazine's Contents Page. When I first created it was actually happy with it, but after looking at many different magazines and paying attention to their Contents page I eventually realised how bad it actually was, there wasn't any images, lack of pages, the colour scheme I used isn't nice and the layout out of the Contents page was also a bad choice, it resembled the layout of a children's story book rather than a music magazine.

I feel that my Music Magazine's Contents page has taken care of the issues that my Preliminary Contents page had and now my Music Magazine's Contents page looks great.