Evaluation: Development of Skills and Understanding

I think from the preliminary task I have learnt a lot. I now understand that you need certain types of models and composition to actually make your magazine fit into a certain theme or stereotype and you really need to plan your design well ahead and even have a few different designs to come up with a perfect design that will appeal to your audience and you need a certain type of article to keep the readers interested and actually want to buy the magazine. I learnt that you really need to do research such as questionnaires to get feedback from the audience who you are making the magazine for to know what they want in a magazine and what they like. I learnt that you need to do a lot of research about existing magazines and articles to truly find out what type of article, photos, graphics, colours and layout will interest the readers. You really need to be able to use programmes like photoshop and have the sense of good camera skills to be able to edit the photos in certain ways and produce different types of graphics and you will also need to take decent photos at certain angles to fit in with the magazine style. It really helps to get feedback from other people on what they think of your designs because if they don't like them then your audience probably wont either. When you do a project like this you really need attention to detail because small little things like spelling mistakes, pixelated photos and graphics, bad composition can be reasons for you audience not wanting to by the product again and can really make you appear unprofessional. The written part of the product, the double page spread really needs a lot of planning and time management because you need a draft of what your going to write and it needs to be interesting and not boring because this will make the audience not want to read it anymore.