Review of my AS Coursework

For this task I am going to look back at my AS media coursework and create an overview of it. I will include things in which I did well and things that I will have to improve on throughout A2. 

For the AS media coursework I had to design a music magazine. It had to include a cover page, double page spread and contents page. 

Here is my finished magazine:

This is my final double page spread. Overall looking back at the DPS I can understand why it wasn't marked very highly. I believe that the colour scheme is very bland, for example there is really only one main colour, which is purple and the a
background is very plain- white. And I believe that images don't particularly look very professional. I think that my images really let me down because it wasn't something that I was used to doing; taking photographs of a high standard, but fortunately I have now learnt from mistakes I made and will be able to correct them for my A2 task.

This is the finished contents page. I like the colour scheme of this page because the colours all seem to work well together. I think my images were too miss-matched which let the contents page down a lot, for example all of the images are in colour and there is one that is in black and white which doesn't match at all, which in my eyes makes my magazine look very un-organised and unprofessional. I also could have included more information telling the audience what the magazine would include and finally make the layout more easier to follow.     

And this finally is the finished cover page. After carefully analysing this page I think that it was bad however it certainly wasn't good. I personally believe that the image I chose really let this page down because it doesn't really with the genre which was music. I think the white background is too plain and simple and more colours should have been used to help make it stand out more. I like the layout of the cover page as it is easy to follow and understand.