Evaluation activity 7

As you can see looking back from the previous attempts at a magazine varying from disproportionate text to unfinished or over sized layouts that my progress has improved to a some-what purchase-able and shelf worthy standard through a series of trial and error and re-arranging to acquire a design that I am proud of. From the original preliminary magazine I have almost completely scrapped the idea of having a living model and have challenged the original magazine conventions by using an illustrated model which I hand drew with my drawing tablet. I have learned the full concepts and language used in the industry and have demonstrated this by getting a better understanding of the appropriate and necessary features of the genre by researching the industry and being taught the generic conventions in class and through personal research into magazine's of the same genre. With the elimination of the need for major camera work and being able to fully control every aspect of the images without the limitations of price and finding the props etc. meant that creating my photos to perfection was incredibly simple as in my image the costume, hair style, props and pose were perfect and complimented well with the magazine whilst the preliminary magazine had two monotonous photos which didn't contrast with the rest of the magazine. I believe that the element that shows how I have improved the most is the layout, mainly that my finished magazine has one for starters and with the use of columns everything is clearer and easier to read as everything is not scattered across the page in no specific order, the brief articles on the contents page are more detailed and have relevance to the genre and the accompanying images.