Print Evaluation

Print Evaluation

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  Evaluation Your name
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  Research • So lookingback through my research I can see some clear strengths and weaknesses. • The first strength I can see in my research is that from the strat of this unit I knew that I wanted to make a magazine review for the film Goodfellas and when I was looking at the posters and other source material I noticed that they were bleak in colour and mood. So I decided to look up other magazines but look for bleak colours on their covers. I did this because I thought it would help me when it came to planning and making my final product. • One weakness I can see is that I think I should have also looked at magazines with different colour schemes as I also think this could have helped me come up with different designs for my magazine and possibly taken a different colour scheme for my magazine cover and double page with still keeping in the same tone and mood the film posters express to the audience. • Another strength I can see from my research I can see is that when it came to looking at the audience profiles I knew what I was looking for and looking at, I was able to analyze each magazines audiences to the best of my ability. I think this helped my product because it gave me a good understanding of what audience looks for different products so I knew how to target my product.
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  Planning • So lookingback through all of my mind maps, mood boards, style sheets, experiments and planned layouts I can see some clear strengths and weaknesses. • First I looked back through my mind maps and mood boards, one strength from my mind maps I can see that I thought everything through. For example when I thought about making a review for a video game I explained what game category I would choose the type of audience I would have to appeal too and what I would write about in the review. • One weakness of my mind maps I can see is that when it came to making the third mind map which I really didn't know what to think about. I am not a huge TV watcher which put me at a disadvantage when making this mind map. I choose this because I realized I was running out of time and just wanted to get a quick idea down. Which you can tell as it doesn't compare very well to my other two ideas. • Now looking at my mood board I can see a good clear strength, that strength being that I chose images from Goodfellas that show the range in tone that the film takes, how the comradery changes to them trying to kill each other out of fear. I think this is a strength because I can use these in my review to express my opinion better across to the reader. • One weaknesses I can see from my mood board was that I only grabbed images from Goodfellas when if I had entertained my other ideas and got some images from them they might have influenced my final product and could have improved it. • When looking at my experiments I can see a strength, this strength being that I knew how I wanted to have my magazine laid out and was confident on my design. I just knew that it could be improved a lot for my final product. • One weakness of my experiments I can see is that I rushed them, I know this therefore I see this as a weakness, I know if I had had more time I could have made my experiments a lot better so it doesn't look like its been thrown together in two hours. Although I don't think it affected my final product.
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  Time Management • Whenit came to this unit I don't believe I managed my time very well as I spent a lot of time of researching my target audience and looking at different reviews of the film so I knew how to better advertise my product toward my audience and hit the targets. I am still very happy with the end product as I believe all the extra time spent on research and planning really did help me. However I did not complete the project on time due to reasons outside of college yet I believe I completed this project to the best of my ability. • If I had more time to produce my work I don't believe I would have done much expect the odd improvement as I am very happy with how the front cover and the double page spread turned out in the end.
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  Technical Qualities Looking atmy magazine cover and comparing it to the exisiting product I can see a lot of differences. The first difference I can see is that with my cover I haven't used a lot on my cover and kept it very plain and the exisiting product has a full cover. I know that I have kept my cover quite plain because of my research and how it showed me that all the Goodfellas material is like this therefore I wanted to keep close to my source material. Now looking at my double page spread and the exisiting double page spread I can see again some clear differences. For example looking at the exisiting product they have used a picture of the main characters for the background and two smaller pictures in the top corner, whereas I have used various pictures I have selected and placed them away from my review.
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  Aesthetic Qualities Personally Ithink my work looks good when thinking of the source material that I have compared it too. For example I think my front cover shows creativity because I have looked at already exisiting covers and posters and I have taken the aspects I liked from them and put them on my magazine cover. For my double page spread I decided to as a fan of the film create a double page that I think would attract a fan of the film, from the colours I have used to the pictures I have chosen. For example I used red and black as a gradient to show the darkness in the film, to show the murder and crime (red) turns into paranoia, drug addictions and betrayal (black) If I was improve my work I think I would have possibly split the text and the pictures apart, for example on the right hand side I could have placed some pictures in the same order but have some text underneat and have done on the same side or in a different order by putting the text up top and pictures on the bottom.
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  Audience Appeal So Idid a lot of research into my audience so I would know how to better advertise my product toward my audience and really get them interested in my product. When looking at my product my front cover has specifically been made to target my audience and draw them in. The front cover is the first thing the audience will see and that it the oppurtunity to really draw them in and get them interested in my magazine. That is why I took all of my target audience notes and really tried to throw in as much as I possibly could into my front cover. For example when I was doing my research I noticed that the main audience of Goodfellas are people that watch biographic/crime/drama films, therefore I tried to make the front cover just like the films poster. Not giving much away, leaving plenty of mystery and I picked pictures out of the characters that I think show off the drama within the film. Then with the double page I decided that to appeal to mty audience I would select the pictures I wanted to use for it very carefully, I thought what pictures can I try to use to express the drama of the film through, how in one scene the characters can be getting drunk and laughing together straight to someone being killed at the snap of a finger and instantly the entire mood has just been flipped on it's head.