Evaluation

Evaluation

Through this process I learnt how temperamental technology can be on a good day, in this process I ran into so many problems I have lost count, the main one was storage of work especially Blogger, the other problem I ran into was during the photography stage of my project when a number of the images I had taken became corrupt and unusable, as these were the originals I had to do a re-shoot.

The technology I had to used was quite advanced for example I used many types of software’s such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom and the most important Adobe Photoshop, without the use of these software I would not have been able to get the level of professionalism that I personally believe that I managed to achieve on the final product, I believe this also help to attract my audience because it made my magazine look good and appropriate to the genre in which I was attempting to target, I also achieved this by using 3 of the main colours most commonly associated with the genre to try and help my magazine fit in with more ease.

I believe if my magazine was to be distributed it would be one of the key ways for the mass market of Classic Rock Fans to keep up to date with the most recent events yet be reminded of some of the most key events in history that helped shape the genre into such a distinctive genre as it is known as today.

Over the course of this project I have learnt to always be thinking on my feet in terms of design, such as how can I tweak this image to get the full effect from it? Or how can I take this design to the level? After the first few designs and mock-ups I discovered that personally “Okay” was just not good enough and that I had to keep pushing myself to think outside the box, also I learnt to keep a good amount of backups of my work in different locations in case anything happened to my work (like it did) overall I believe this project has help me become more creative and insight full in terms of magazine and not just Graphic Design.