Writing your evaluation
Before you start your evaluation, you need to gather some audience feedback. Ask other people (from your target audience) to look at your work and give you some comments -both positive and negative.
The evaluation should bebetween 500 - 800 words long and it should be word-processed. Your brief and the title of your production should be stated clearly as the heading of yourevaluation
As you write, aim to analyse and evaluate throughout. Do not repeat anything (eg if two bullet points are similar and you have already answered the point, don't write itagain) and always say WHY you did something, not just that you did it. DON'T MOAN! The examiner will not respect your work if it just moans about the software etc!
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
Explain what research you did and what you learned (annotating real magazines and audience research)
Explain what planning you did and why it was helpful (mock ups and drafting)
CONSTRUCTION
Explain how you made your pages and WHY you made them in that way.
(which fonts you chose and why, which colours you chose and why, why you chose particular images including shot size, decisions you made about layout)
Which conventions of magazines did you use?
(include the types of articles to fit the genre, include the layouts, the font choices, the use of mastheads, coverlines, editorials, page numbers in contents pages, columns etc)
EVALUATION
Explain what audience your audience thought about your pages and why audience feedback is important
Say if you agree or disagree with their opinions and explain why
Analyse your final pages, explaining the connotations created. (eg why you used certain colours, fonts, images, words etc)
Before you start your evaluation, you need to gather some audience feedback. Ask other people (from your target audience) to look at your work and give you some comments -both positive and negative.
The evaluation should bebetween 500 - 800 words long and it should be word-processed. Your brief and the title of your production should be stated clearly as the heading of yourevaluation
As you write, aim to analyse and evaluate throughout. Do not repeat anything (eg if two bullet points are similar and you have already answered the point, don't write itagain) and always say WHY you did something, not just that you did it. DON'T MOAN! The examiner will not respect your work if it just moans about the software etc!
RESEARCH AND PLANNING
Explain what research you did and what you learned (annotating real magazines and audience research)
Explain what planning you did and why it was helpful (mock ups and drafting)
CONSTRUCTION
Explain how you made your pages and WHY you made them in that way.
(which fonts you chose and why, which colours you chose and why, why you chose particular images including shot size, decisions you made about layout)
Which conventions of magazines did you use?
(include the types of articles to fit the genre, include the layouts, the font choices, the use of mastheads, coverlines, editorials, page numbers in contents pages, columns etc)
EVALUATION
Explain what audience your audience thought about your pages and why audience feedback is important
Say if you agree or disagree with their opinions and explain why
Analyse your final pages, explaining the connotations created. (eg why you used certain colours, fonts, images, words etc)