Media Studies Coursework: Evaluation

After completing my finished music magazine, the final step was to evaluate the process of constructing my product from beginning to end. I presented this PowerPoint presentation to a group of my peers and my teacher on Friday 6th May, adding my own commentary and explaining in detail my answers to each question. Here is a copy of my PowerPoint presentation:

Finished evaluation

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Diary Entry - Week Eleven: 11th – 14th April 2011

The final deadline for our finished music magazine was Thursday this week, so I used every lesson this week as well as after school most days to add my finishing touches and make my final pages as professional as possible. By five o’clock on Thursday 14^th, everything was uploaded to the school hard drive and my blog, so that over the Easter holidays I can complete my evaluation.

Media Coursework: Week by Week Guide

This is a scanned in copy of the hand-drawn calendar I made myself to make sure I kept up to date with diary entries, and knew exactly what had been done in each lesson to ensure no time was wasted in the process of completing my coursework. 

Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread: Final Drafts

 These are the final drafts of my music magazine's cover, contents page and double page spread, with all improvements made.

Diary Entry - Week Ten: 4th – 8th April 2011

Following advice from multiple people who looked at my rough cuts, I used Monday this week to re-take the images for my double page spread, as my original one was slightly out of focus on the face. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were used to continue improving my rough cuts and to re-draft my double page spread using the new and improved image. On Friday, we were given an explanation of the different ways we could evaluate our product, which I will begin to do following the final deadline on Thursday next week.

Diary Entry – Week Nine: 28th March – 1st April 2011

The deadline to have the rough cut first drafts of my cover, contents page and double spread uploaded was five o’clock on Monday this week, and the following day I received feedback of these from both my teacher and the other students in my class (who are conveniently all part of my target market). After learning what they liked and thought could be improved about my magazine, I was able to type up these comments and upload them to my blog, and then in my remaining three lessons I began to work on my second drafts based on their advice.

Rough Cut Feedback

After completing a first draft of my front cover, contents page and double page spread, I was able to get some feedback from my teacher and other students - here are a selection of their comments:

Teacher:
Front cover - Really well made. Strong Photo, good font diversity.
                     Possibly too dark? The logo could be stroinger.

Contents Page - Well presented. Clear articles and descriptions. Good photography.
                          More diversity in photos (Long shots/ Close-ups?) Stronger logo again.

DPS - Really good! Great photo, good positioning of the eext and range in fonts.
           Photos posisbly a bit blurry? Maybe break up the text a bit.

Other students - What did they like?
Front cover - Good colour scheme, matches her clothes. Good makeup/ costume on model. Good layout,    variety of font styles. Uses conventions well. Clear house style.

Contents Page - Good main image. Good layout of text. Inkeeping with colour scheme. Good range of images. Clear house style. Well sectioned and easy to understand.

DPS - Lovey choice of colours, all inkeeping - even her nails and bracelet! Text fits around the image. Very strong layout. Good writing style. Bright, very girly.

What could have been improved?
Front cover - Date, issue and price should be the same size. Writing in box at the top should have more space at the sides.

Contents Page - Retake two smaller images - Don't fit in as well and look as professional. Add a page number at the bottom.

DPS - Image slightly out of focus? Make quote stand out a bit more. Possibly have standfirst in a different colour/ size to differentiate it from article. Make headline stand out more?