Thursday, 3 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Layout Task Self-Assessment

(The following is my self-assessment of my layout experimentation task which can be found here)

What Went Well?
  • I have justified most of my reasoning behind the decisions I made when I created the front covers.
  • I have included all but one of the codes and conventions of music magazines on all my covers (URL, Price and issue number – I forgot about the date line).
  • Most of the artists I used for my cover lines matched each other in terms of their genre and style of music.
  • In my opinion, my “Music_X” magazine was the best as it includes secondary imagery. This magazine was also the most fun to create.
Even better if:
  • I should have included he date line to give a sense of realism to the covers.
  • At times (for example on the cover of “M” magazine featuring “The Hippy Hive”) I could have used a more interesting font to match the artist’s style of music.
  • On the other cover of “M” magazine my main cover line of “Drake” blended in to the main image making it hard to read from a distance. I could have fixed this by either moving the cover line to a different location on the cover, or I could have chosen a different font or font colour.

This task was useful for me as in the future, when it comes to creating our real magazine, I can look back at this task and I can see what colours work together, what fonts work for what genre, etc. I think because of this task, the process of creating my magazine will be much smoother.

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