Evaluation for my double page spread

Evaluation

The first section of the journalism task was the research, which was the easiest part as it wasn’t very difficult to find facts and statistics about the music industry and about illegal file sharing. My strengths were finding key information which helped make my magazine article interesting and helpful. This is the information that would make my article appealing to the target audience; this means that they would buy the magazine and this is the outcome that is needed. I used various websites which helped me with information and finding these websites was a weakness as a lot of websites contained information that was irrelevant therefore wasn’t useful to my audience.

Writing out the actual article was harder than the research as I had to think clearly about how to make the language clear and fascinating this was a weakness. Interests depend on the person; not everyone likes the same thing therefore it was difficult to make it perfect. But then I thought about target audience and what they will like to read. I tried to make the language style simple so it was understandable but factual at the same time in order to make the article useful. My strength for this was planning out bullet points which helped me with the points that I was going to mention during the article.

I have learnt how to use InDesign for my magazine article as you can sort out the layout and arrange how you want the article to be. This was helpful but I struggled at first because it takes time to get used to it. The bad thing about InDesign is there are not many colours for fonts and background. This doesn’t allow me to make it as aesthetically pleasing as it could have been if there were more colours available. Also there is no spell check therefore if I spell a word wrong InDesign would not notify me. On the other hand there were positives; i could use a unique layout different from anyone else’s and InDesign helped me to keep it neat with assistance lines that informed me when i was in line with a paragraph or an image.

Audience feedback was very helpful to me as i know what I done wrong and what i can improve on next time. My audience also informed me of what I had done well so i know to keep this the same in order to get full audience satisfaction.