8/2/2019 Chart Magazine Teacher Feedback

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2010/2011 LC AS MEDIA

Mood Boards XExamples of other texts/style models X

Analysis of magazine covers/film openings X

25 word pitch X

Pitch feedback X

Mock ups X

Test shots X

Colour Palette X

Audience profile X

Name: Laura Dobson Title: Chart.

General Comment: Good effort to complete all 3 elements by the deadline Laura.

Cover:

y At the moment looks more like a school magazine than a music magazine.y Cut full stop after title and reorganise date/ issue elements so with the title. Bar code

been cut off is this just the printer?

y Model attire, image and pose too student-like. Also, too small for the page and badlighting.

y Your cutting out is generally good just be careful when cutting round your models hair,maybe use the rubber zoomed all the way in to tidy up.

y Dimensions too wrong: everything is too boxed off so it feels more like a title page to aproject rather than a front cover.

y Too many colours and the yellow background only serve to wash everything out.Remember the three colour pallet.

y I can only see one use of font, experiment with your typography be as creative as youcan. Most magazines have 3 to 4 different fonts on the front cover.

Contents:

y Again, looks like a school project. Why havent you followed the conventions ofContents pages that we have looked at and modelled your work on an existing page??

y 18 pages??y Photo doesnt make any sense. Who is she? Needs anchorage. Too small for the page.

Where are all the other images to support the contents page?

y Once again your cutting out is ok apart from around your models hair, maybe tryfeathering the edge, which is in the select toolbar.

y Why all in capitals again??y Your typography is all the same, there is no contrast experiment with other fonts and

experiment with the way you lay your text out.

y The green numbers fade into the background use effects or a different colour to makethem stand out. Bevel or emboss are useful text tools or try dropping a shadow.

8/2/2019 Chart Magazine Teacher Feedback

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2010/2011 LC AS MEDIA

Practical Draft Level:

2c

DPS:

y Nice idea doing album reviews and having iPhone images but much more work needs to gointo the execution.

y Too much white space on page and text not aligned so pages look lop-sided.y

Poor lighting and angles/cutting out of images. Positioning of images inconsistent. When youre take your photos, cut the iPhone out, leaving no border of its original background, this

will make your image appear cleaner cut.

y Text all in capitals and needs proof reading. Maybe consider a different font that isnt all incapitals.

y Throughout your whole magazine you have only used one font. Look back at your analysis ofother magazines and look at the various types of text they have used. Your typography is

something you need to work on, on all three pieces. In your blog research you had some

really nice fonts you looked at go back to them for ideas.