REFLECTION

 

REFLECTION

This blog post is a reflection of my thoughts about the school Magazine project I did as a part of my media coursework, what I have done well and what could be done differently in my next media project, the Music Magazine. This will be structured somewhat around the 'WHAT I WILL BE ASSESSING' page in one of the media PowerPoints. Number 12 (Reflection) Will not be included, as this blog post IS that.

1: There is a blog. 

Nuff said

2: 1st blog post researching a topic of your choice

My first blogpost was about the Ori series, and I feel as if I did a good job on it. I got my point across well, balanced my examples out, compared Ori's emotion with games unlike it to show how most games get their immersion across differently, and overall, after reviewing it I think it's by far the best blog post in this Blog.

3: Your primary research: Questionnaire

The Questionnaire was okay, but I feel as if it could have used some improvements. It's not bad by any stretch of the word, but it could have done with a little extra, for example the number of participants was the exact bare minimum, and a few more questions could have been added in order to influence the magazine a little more. Apart from those two gripes, it's fine.

4: The results from your questionnaire in data form (Pie chart)

The results were enough to shape the resulting magazine cover, so I consider this one to be a success. 

5: Textual analysis from an existing school magazine

The textual analysis was of a school magazine named 'Hear me out' (This actually semi-inspired the name of my school magazine 'FYI'.), a magazine created by the students at Plymouth High School for All Girls. A decent job was done on it, but I think things like it in the future could be improved by avoiding this one's flaws. The same point was repeated over and over (Their focus on the environment and having small but right voices heard.) These are not bad points, it's just the way i've repeated them over and over which detracts from the quality a little. I also feel as if not enough work has been done on it in terms of quantity, the size of the article and the paragraph density is quite small.

6: Sketch of potential magazine layout/Sketch of concept

I feel like this is one of the best pieces of coursework I've done in this collection (Second only to the actual magazine cover). I put a lot of effort into the second sketch (the first being mainly a rough plan of where the elements were going to be placed and whatnot). The sketch was very high quality for a simple concept sketch (admittedly some of the work I placed into that could have been spent elsewhere). 

7: Font research

The font research task was one that I was very unsure about the entirety of the way through, I didn't seem to understand the somewhat vague(?) instructions. I did the best that I could with the information I was given.

8: Image planning sheet with decisions and risk assessment

The images were taken on short notice, decisions were made shortly before the shoot and the risk assessment wasn't necessary. In my eyes, that defeats the whole purpose of this piece existing. Though, next time I do wholly intend to create an image planning sheet like this for the music magazine if required.

9: Images taken

The images taken were all of satisfactory quality, I do not think I needed any more for the purpose I was intending to use them, they were as high quality as I wanted them to be, and they looked nice. They also fit onto the front cover and contents page, which was very nice.

10: Front cover of your school magazine

The front cover of my school magazine, in my eyes, couldn't have gone better. I perfectly replicated my own version of a mainstream magazine cover, it was completely unique, I loved what I had done with it.

11: Blog post justifying your choices for your magazine

(Included in the same blog post as the front cover) I think most of the reasons were explained well.

Kieran Cawood