Task 4 (Audience feedback and evaluation (preliminary task)

Task 4

Audience feedback and evaluation (preliminary task)

 

What went well?

 

I presented my magazine in front of my class and as expected received pretty mixed reviews. Firstly I shall talk about what people liked about my student magazine. Quite a few people appreciated the simplicity of it. They said they liked how I didn't try to go over the top and try to cram so much in, unlike others, and rather I kept it neat and professional. Another thing which went down well in general was the title of my magazine which was 'The Weekly Student'. I believe that this sounds very much like a student magazine and according to the group feedback, my target market agree.

 

What do I need to improve on?

 

As I said my magazine received mixed reviews during the group feedback session which means there are also a few aspects which I can improve on. Firstly, the colour scheme didn't work as well as I initially thought, furthermore it isn't consistent throughout the magazine. Also the image on the front cover which I had to manipulate last minute didn't go down very well. Initially the picture was two students talking to each other and smiling on a bench in the college and it looked very much like a image you'd find in a student magazine. However, the picture had to be a mid shot and therefore I had to zoom in and crop out a lot of the original image which I agree didn't look very good.

 

Three key points for development when producing the main task (music magazine)

 

With a combination of my own opinions and the feedback received I shall state three points which I would like to better when making my music magazine. They are as follows;

·         A more eye catching colour scheme

·         Better journalism

·         More professional photographs