Thursday, 30 January 2014

Analysing Previous Student Work


Analysing Previous Student Work

 

Name of Magazine
Strengths
Weaknesses
Grade I awarded and reason
 
Star Quality
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         They use a continuous house theme of black, white and yellow in the magazine.
·         Good quality images throughout that fit to what the magazine is about and easy to read, clear writing that draws the reader in.
·         The masthead is original and uses shapes rather than letters for their A’s.
·         They overuse the house theme on their double spread on the band. Could have followed the bands house theme.
·         The font they have used is very childish, but easy to read. Could be more professional.
·         The cover on two of the girl’s heads the photo shop skills aren’t very good.
·         The contents page is over cluttered, and looks too crowded.
 
 
 
 
Low B
 
 
 
Reckless
 
 
 
 
·         Has a house theme of black red and white.
·         The title fits what the magazine is guessed to be about.
 
·         Looks unfinished.
·         Pictures are very emotionless and badly photo shopped.
·         Not easy to read the details on the cover.
·         The double spread page’s background is plain and boring. Does not follow any theme.
·         No page numbers.
 
 
 
 
E

 

What have I learned from looking at last year’s student work?

 

I have learned that in order to make a good music magazine is to keep it simple without cramming the pages full of images. Also to use simple backgrounds so the text is more clear and a continuous house theme is the way to go.
 
 

How will I apply this to my own work?

 
I will choose a simple colour theme and have my images also match this colour theme in some way whether it be the background or the colour choices. I will also allow my contents pages to have only one image to allow the page to not be cramped up with other images. The text will be easy to read and the double page spread will follow the house theme also but with minor alterations to suit what the article is about.

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