Evaulation

Evaluation

The reasons for my choices on my final choice was that the designers is because of how young they were when they started to get into their graphic design. Stephan started his design career at the age of 15 this impacted the way in which I thought about him. Jessica Walsh began coding and designing websites at age 11. This showed me how driven she was to do something to do with media in her future. What I’m trying to achieve in my final product is that to show younger people that they can do whatever they want and decide at any age no matter what gender. The audience I’m trying to target with my final product is teenagers this is because at the age bracket of 15-19 you are still wondering about what you want to do in the future but that some people know when they are 30 or some ever know when they are 12. To be completely honest I didn’t like this project as much as the other projects I have done. This may be due to the fact as it is group work and when people are missing from your group it becomes harder to be able to do the work and everyone gets set back with their work.

I did primary research which was looking at different magazines, this being online magazines and print magazines. As the brief for this project says to do an online magazine I did a online one. I looked into the features they have meaning if they have page numbers how they are laid out online. Even into the types of transitions they have. This could affect the way magazine is seen by other people. I also researched into what kind of people read magazines from what age bracket. This also affected the way I created my magazine. This is because people which are teenagers do not like reading much but like listening to voices. But that wasn’t able to be done so I decided to add more pictures so people get the context of the work. I think I managed my time okay, I personally think I could have time managed my time better and having a list of things to complete in a week. But this has taught me that next project I need to have a weekly timetable for me to complete a certain amount of work a week.

The audience for my media product will be young teenagers doing creative courses. This is because of how my two designers started at a young age. Walsh started at the age of 11 whereas Stephan started at 15. This shows that people at a young age should get encouraged more to do what they want. As my two designers started young and stayed with what they liked. Then became a group which is a gigantic group around the world.

The techniques I used to attract my audience is using more pictures than text. This is due to the fact of my understanding that most people at a young age do not read but would rather look at pictures and understand from there. So I decided to apply more pictures into my work rather than flushing them with information which they might find useless. I also used little text due to the fact that the more text used in the work would make less people want to read it. This may be a negative as the less text used would not encourage them or inform them enough. But I decided that the better option was more pictures, the work of the group/designers are shown which would show them off more than text.

 I have learnt a lot about the media technologies, I learnt how to use different tools in more of an experienced skill. The different range of technologies which were used were Photoshop and InDesign. InDesign was more difficult to use as it had most of my work on it and using different tools so change things around made it more complicated. I encountered a few problems with my InDesign crashing on me not working on computers and not being able to do certain things I wanted as the college computers were not able to handle it.

My final design didn’t resemble my initial design as I had issues which came into my way. This was due to the fact of me thinking that the drawing done by hand would be able to be on an interactive spread. Which I was complete wrong about because of the page was different and when putting my ideas from the paper to computer all my work was squashed together. Which gave the new look of a magazine away. The things which was unsuccessful in my work was the parts when I had to apply which was getting all text and pictures to line up in a line and have the same gap between them.   

My final magazine was completed on time with everything done. We had a few set backs which caused us to be running late and finishing at the end of the time. We had completed out work a day before the deadline but had to do some corrections and fix a few things so the magazine had a flow of text and colour. We had a few errors and a few crashes when trying to complete as it kept trying to save but crashed. We than decided to move computers and than it worked. Our group members were okay but it was a struggle as well to do as people didn't want to participate as a group. We had one member which didn't even want to help us do anything but was just saying yes and no, not giving ideas. If we had more time I would make our group work look more brighter and aesthetically pleasing. This was because of that someone wanted to do their own things and not listen to us. This made me frustrated at this person as he didn't want to pay attention to us .