feedback sheet, student work

Feedback Sheet – Student Work

Please refer to photography, colour, layout, font style, framing and cropping as well as font style and actual text in your response.

Please remember to be constructive in your criticism as this is work by students – not professional s

Name of product	What I thought were the strengths	What I thought were the weaknesses
Static buzz	I liked the Images on the pages; they draw you in and are very colourful. The masthead stands out because it is white; it stands against the dark background. There is a lot of information on the double page spread and there are pull lines and page numbers.	The text is bold and all white, it doesn’t fit with the theme properly and looks unprofessional. The text on the front page in the red box doesn’t fit in very well, it is the wrong colour scheme and the font looks unprofessional. The pull lines on the front cover also don’t fit in well and the font used in the masthead doesn’t look good because it looks blurry and doesn’t stand out.
Rock n roll	The composition of the contents page and double page spread is really good as it is well laid out. The colour scheme is really good and the colours fit the genre of the magazine. The contents age has titles, which are grey, and text, which is black. The font is really good, it is easy to read and looks professional, and it looks like an actual magazines font.	The image on the front cover isn’t well edited and looks like it has just been plonked in the middle of the page without thinking of composition, the edges of the image are all choppy and it looks like they haven’t took care with the editing. The text on the front cover is in a bad font and doesn’t feel like it fits with the magazine in general.
Broadsword	The image on the front cover is good quality. The text of the masthead looks good, the font and colours are fitting.	The font for all of the pull lines and most of the text throughout the magazine is really bad. The images are distorted and overall the magazine looks really unprofessional.

What I have learned from looking at student work :

After looking at students work I have learnt to make sure the editing and quality of the images are good and clear. I would use better fonts that look professional and I would use a fixed colour scheme instead of one, which is all over the place and looks messy. I have learnt the composition is key to having a good magazine, If the text boxes are all over the place then the magazine looks unprofessional and also quite cheap.

 

I will use this new knowledge to help me make my magazine look better than the other ones by taking into account strengths and weaknesses. I will make sure my colour scheme fits the genre and I will make the composition look smart, I will make the images clear and I will have the correct fonts for the magazine.

How I will use this new knowledge to help me create my own product :