School Magazine Evaluation
Annotate your finished work (transfer it to Word, or similar)
Images and headings of students enjoying their time at summer school and a sub title influencing the reader to come and do something better.
Use of students as the main cover picture. There is also a heading at the bottom of the page showing you that you can win prizes
The title of my school magazine.

Picture and quote from my main article.
Here displays all of the pages my magazine will contain if I were to create the whole magazine, but I didn’t have to as it was not required of me to do so.










Explain what you were trying to achieve
What I was trying to achieve with the creation of my front cover and contents page were to show a school magazine, I could have chosen any school but I decided to make my magazine based on my school: Kelsey Park Sports College but I changed their logo for my magazine.
Highlight your strengths: What went well? What went to plan?
The strengths of the creation of this front cover and contents page were mainly based on my front page. What I think went well was the way I made the layout of my contents page, but also the background colours. I used colour and added it to my text (this was on both my front cover and contents page).
What was deliberate? What coincidence?
In terms of creating my magazine cover and contents page, nothing was created deliberately or by coincidence. I just made it look how I thought it would look like.
Where are your weaknesses? What were the problems?
I feel that I only had one major weakness, which was creating the colour of my background, I knew that I could control the gradient of 1 colour, but I didn’t know how to control the gradient using 2 colours, but with a little help, I managed to control the gradient of 2 colours but in the end I used only one colour because there were too many colours on both my front cover and content, However, after doing this and leaving this task for a week, I had completely forgotten how to control this, so this was a problem when it came to experimenting with different background colours.
What had you intended to do? Why did it not work?
One of the things I intended to do was to get an image of a student in my fellow year holding either a football or a basketball (I decided on a summer sporting activities) and then use that as my main cover picture, however I could not do this due to lack of time that I had to create the magazine cover and contents page and I also didn’t do this because my magazine was for students ages 7 to 16, but then because I had images of students of different ages on my front cover, I had to change my target audience from 7 to 16 year olds, to 7 to 16 year olds and I also used a picture of someone who appears to be in either year 4 or year 9 as my main cover picture.
Compare your work to the standard OCR example (on W Drive)
The colour of the background used is the same; however the OCR example uses a darker shade of yellow, whereas I have used a lighter shade of yellow, orange, red, green. The font size of the text used in the OCR example draw my eyes towards that specific bit of what I am viewing, and I think that this works well to the advantage of the creator, whereas the text I use isn’t big enough to draw readers into anything specific in my opinion. My work compared to the OCR example doesn’t really feel as professional, or authentic as the example is, but as this was only the preliminary exercise, it doesn’t really matter how professional it is, but when it comes to the main task, I would have to make sure that my magazine cover and contents page look a lot more professional, this would involve: Making the cover of the magazine look a bit more untidy, but still upholding that professional level of work, using bigger font sizes to draw readers in to specific parts, basically things that would make my magazine a lot more interesting.

What have you learnt about Media Production as a result of this process?
I feel that I have learned how to use a desktop publisher (Adobe In Design) to a certain standard, but I do not know everything about that (this would take quite a while in my opinion to grasp) but then creating my front cover and magazine didn’t take me long to grasp certain tools used whilst creating these products.
What have you learnt about the task and the way you work?
What I have learnt about the task was that sometimes it takes experience to produce something of a good quality, but then other times, to produce good quality work can come to mind instantly. The way I work is that I normally act on impulses and just throw out ideas when I’m in the planning stages which help me to make something of a good quality, but here, I never did that which was quite weird for me, hence why I feel that my work isn’t at the best quality it could be at.
How will you change the way you approach the main task?
In terms of approaching the main task, I will make sure that after everything new I learn, I will write down notes on how to do those specific new things that I have learnt so that I don’t forget how to do it again (this could refer to how to create a gradient using 2 colours) and I would make sure that I have all the resources I need to make sure that creation of the main task runs smoothly.
What lessons have you learnt?
After a lot of thought, I can say that I have learnt to put more effort into everything I create, and give myself more time to think of ideas for my creations.