Product Evaluation

Below is my final product evaluation where I have answered seven questions regarding the planning and process of creating my music magazine:

Final Products

This final cover product is a large improvement on the previous version as the background now matches the house style of the rest of the magazine. I have also made the most of my space and ensured that there is very limited amount of dead space that allows for the background to not be completely left out. 

This final version of my contents page is a much needed improvement to its predecessor, upon receiving feedback on the previous version I felt that the layout needed to be completely re-designed and more images needed to be used to help prevent an overall dominance of dead space.  

My double page spread is the largest improvement on it's previous version as this one now follows the conventions of magazines from my chosen genre, it is modeled after a double page spread found in 'Mixmag'. This version uses multiple forms of graphical techniques such as overlaying, blurring, and adding filters to imagery which allows for this to actually look like a professional magazine.

Newest Products (As of December)

Current Cover Page for Music Magazine

The feedback that I received for this product stated that I needed to prevent the over abundance of dead space. It was also suggested that I change the tagline to "EQuality for EDM" which would match the style of my mast head.  

Current Contents Page

The feedback for this product included the idea to fill in dead space, use more imagery and also ensure it follows a house style in harmony with the rest of my products, to do this I will most likely completely change the layout of this product in order to follow the conventions of other products in this genre.

Current Double Page Spread

For my feedback of this product I was advised to use more imagery to prevent dead space, also this layout for a double page spread does not follow the conventions of products typical of the genre and so I will completely change the layout and colour scheme in order to follow a complete house style. The font used is also fairly hard to read and so I will change this in a way that it is easily legible and also contributes to the house style.

Double Page Spread (Mock up)

 I may change the background to a monochrome one allowing for the models to stand out more from the background.

For these two pages I may split them into two short biographies and then create a logo that will accompany them (in the above boxes).

Isaac Brady Logo Design

Second magazine mock-up

This is the edited version of the background image, I chose to add a neon effect to the sky and finally add a poster effect to end up with this as the finished background image.

I may add a layer over the top of the model 

Contents

Magazine Cover Mock up

Magazine Cover Mock up

The aim of this was to create an initial magazine cover for my magazine the first idea was to have me walking through the streets of a fading city with the mast head at the top undisturbed.

Magazine photographs

Double Page Spread Images

Cover Images

Contents Page Photos