reviewing of work

Reviewing of Work

By

Liam Donnelly & Ryan Batey

Jack Richmond

• Research and planning – 14 (level 3)

• Construction – 43 (level 3)

• Evaluation – 17 (level 4)

Research and Planning (Good)

• For the research Jack carried out a questionnaire so that he could establish how to style his magazine and who his main target audience would be, this then enabled him to create a house style and genre which would fit his audience.

• Also jack looked at other types of music magazine which enabled him to dip into different house styles of the magazines and then eventually create his own house style which is original.

Research and Planning (Poor)

• The questionnaire could include more in-depth questions so that he could get a better knowledge of what his audience would be.

• The blog needs to be updated more often in order to achieve better marks, the blog was not updated between November to March.

Construction (Good)

• The colour pallet is consistent with the use of red, white and black, this is a good use of colours because it goes with the type of magazine that he is trying to create.

• 3 fonts are used on the front cover which is the typical conventions of a magazine, which is not to use more than 2 or 3 font styles.

Construction (Poor)

• The construction of the magazine looks like there is slightly to much going and therefore does not represent a real-looking magazine which is important.

• The image on the feature article is being cut through via a block of colour and text which makes the piece look amateur.

Evaluation (Good)

• He uses some technology used in his blog, he includes thing such as slide share and chirbit.

• He also has a good understanding of the development from the prelim task to the full task.

Evaluation (Poor)

• He could use more technology on the blog, such as YouTube.

• Also he could have included somewhere of how he compares his work to a real style model and how he used this to create his house style.

Kirstie Maccoy

• Research and planning – 13 (level 3)

• Construction – 43 (level 3)

• Evaluation – 14 (level 3)

Research and Planning (Good)

• She has given a lot of planning and research evidence throughout her blog.

• She has also taken into account who her target audience is going to be by handing out questionnaires and getting feedback on who is going to be buying her blog.

Research and Planning (Poor)

• Could be a larger choice of answers on some of the questionnaire as it seems to be for a typical niche audience before she has created the magazine.

• She could have used a variety of different ways for research as only used one form, this being a questionnaire.

Construction (Good)

• She has showed understanding of the conventions of layout and the page design, she has also used a range of fonts and text sizes.

• As well as this she has manipulated photographs where necessary to fit in with the house style and context of the magazine.

Construction (Poor)

• The construction is fairly good but one thing is that the use of text makes it look as if it is not very professional, for example the header and tags are quite hard to read.

• Another is the use of the white background, even though it brings out the picture it makes the rest of the magazine look bland and boring.

Evaluation (Good)

• She has used technology in the evaluation but hasn’t used enough of it to get into the higher marks, for example using videos or YouTube.

• Also she has a good understanding of the task from the prelim work up until the finished magazine cover.

Evaluation (Poor)

• She could use more technology on the blog, such as YouTube.

• Also she could have included somewhere of how he compares his work to a real style model and how he used this to assist in how to style it.

Megan Durham

• Research and planning – 13 (level 3)

• Construction – 48 (level 4)

• Evaluation – 16 (level 4)

Research and Planning (Good)

• She has taken into account who her target audience are going to be, by handing out questionnaires to get an idea of who it is that will buy her magazine.

• She has also produced a music magazine article plan.

Research and Planning (Poor)

• The planning for the magazine, such as the magazine article plan are not very detailed.

• She could also have used various ways to gather information on who her target audience is not just a questionnaire.

Construction (Good)

• She has used a range of fonts and has kept her colour pallet down to 4 colours.

• She has also matched the image to the background of the magazine and the image is of good quality.

Construction (Poor)

• The lime green colour on the front of the magazine doesn’t really go with the colour pallet of black, white and purple.

• I also don’t think that the front cover would really stand out on a shelf because there is no use of very eye catching colours or images.

Evaluation (Good)

• She has used some technology on the blog, by using things like YouTube, slid share and Prezzi. She has also wrote a wide range of information on her blog.

• She also has a very good understanding of the task, all the way from the prelim work up until the completed task and this is why we have given her such a high mark.

Evaluation (Poor)

• Could include somewhere how she feels her work compares to a magazine that is on the shelf at the minute.