Analysing Previous Student Work
Name of Magazine
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Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Grade I awarded and reason
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Star Quality
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The colour scheme is
throughout: the
colours of yellow, black and white carry out through al pages, giving a
professional look.
Good images: the images are good as they have
obviously been taken by he makers for the main image on the front page and
for some of the images on the contents page and for their double page spread.
Masthead is unique: its good quality and unique
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The contents page is
cluttered: the
images are far too big and there isn’t enough information about what is on
the pages.
Photoshop work isn’t at
a professional level: could
have been edited a little better for better quality
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B
It is very well planned out and the layout and theme is
consistent, however I don’t think that the magazine I at its full potential
because of the cluttered images.
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TODAY!
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The colour theme is
throughout: the
colours run throughout of the magazine of the colours of red white and black.
Images: the images are simple and don’t clutter
the pages.
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Contents page: there could have had a red background to
make it look less plain and boring behind the text.
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B:
This magazine was very good and I really like the colour
white as a background so that the magazine wasn’t too bright and it didn’t
look messy, however I again don’t think that it reached its full potential as
there could have been extra colour added because too much white made the
background look boring.
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Reckless
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Masthead: It fits with the theme of the magazine as
you can easily guess what the magazine is about – reckless people ad rock
music.
Theme: dark colours continue throughout –
black.
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Main Image: didn’t look very professional as even for
something aimed at his magazine audience, you wouldn’t see an image as such
on it, also the ‘star’ didn’t have a name on the front cover.
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D:
I gave this magazine a D because it didn’t look very
professional the images weren’t very good as it was badly photoshopped ad
there wasn’t enough writing inside. Other fonts could have been used to look
more professional to the audience.
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I
have learned that creating a magazine looks harder that what I originally
thought. I have also learnt that to make my magazine look really good I will
have to keep my theme bright to fit my genre of magazine, and also, I will
have to make the main image relevant to the whole magazine by thinking
carefully about setting, props and costume.
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How will I apply this to my own work?
I
will think thoroughly about the setting of my main images to make it fit with
the theme and also not over do the theme so it doesn’t look cluttered and
unprofessional. I will also play around with my setting of the magazine so
that everything relevant fits together and so that other images and
subheadings don’t take the attention away from the main image/ story.
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