Preliminary exercise learner response

1) Type up your teacher's feedback in full. If you've received your feedback via email, you can simply cut and paste it from the email into your blog.

WWW: Your cover image is clear and emits a feeling of confidence and pride that aligns with the message of the article within. The masthead is creative with the different font sizes drawing the eye immediately. You’ve been very consistent with your choice of colour scheme which establishes a clear theme for your magazine. Inside your magazine you have a range of traditional long form writing, quotations and images that all match your message goal. You’ve also started to consider some of the more throwaway conventions of magazines such as prizes and gifts which can all be used to entice a reader.


Next Steps: Whilst effective, there are elements of your front cover which make it feel more like a poster advertising this book than a magazine promoting it. Your cover lines should focus on other stories that could potentially be found within a magazine titled ‘CelebSpace’ rather than all being centred around your fictional author. Also, consider the colour overlap of the end of your Masthead and the hair behind it. I would recommend either changing the colour of the ‘space’ portion of your Masthead or shrinking the cover image slightly to avoid this overlap. Inside your magazine, consider your use of space. The blank areas around your writing could perhaps be minimised by some changes in lines. Perhaps moving paragraphs around so they are not always in straight lines may allow for this fix. Finally, perhaps add some legitimacy to your audience reviewer by making them a recognisable name in the field of self-improvement or celebrity rather than having simply “an audience review”.

2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and the feedback you were given, write two WWW bullet points (What Went Well) and two Next Step bullet points for your preliminary exercise. 

WWW:
- clear and constant colour scheme 
- range of text to connect to audience 


NEXT STEPS:
- can have better organisation/structure/layout
- coverlines need to contain what other things can be in the magazine not just about the book
- have a recognisable name for the review


3) What have you learned from the preliminary exercise that will help you in the actual coursework project? List three things you have learned or will do differently as a result of this exercise. You may want to comment on organisation, actors, filming, editing or something else entirely but be specific.

I have learned that I need to have a clear layout so it can be easier to read and more appealing to the audience, also that I should create a feel of a magazine as the front cover seems like a poster due to the coverlines not being broad enough. The layout has clashes with other images like the title of publication overlapping my hair















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