NEA Part 6 - Product Profile

Tuesday 23rd April 2019

Product Style Profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine.

Introduction:

In this task I will be preparing and creating sketches that should mirror what I want to do with my production. At the end of this lesson, I should understand how to use sketches to influence my stylistic decisions. Also, I should be able to undertake a creative task where I begin the process in which I decide the different styles of my magazine.

Draft 1 is for my magazine front cover. I showed it to a couple of people in my class and the feedback was positive, however they gave me constructive criticism and told me to do another redraft but use symbols instead because it would make it easier in the future for me to transfer my ideas on my plan into Photoshop. The main point I will take from this is to redraft using symbols, in order to make it more clear.

Draft 2 is also for my magazine front cover. I showed it to a couple of people in my class and they said it was an improvement from my last draft because I used symbols to show text and pictures. However, they told me to spread out the cover lines and put them on both sides of my main picture, as they were squashed on one side of my front cover.

Draft 3 is for my magazine front cover. I showed it to a couple of people in my class and they said it was a good improvement from my last draft because I spaced out the cover lines more and I included a freebie at the bottom of my front cover, which would appeal to the target audience (10-13 year olds).

Plenary:

I found this step useful because it allowed me to understand what my front cover may look like and what to include on the final product.

Peer feedback was really useful because it allowed me to improve my draft, as they gave me constructive criticism on my front cover and they gave me positives, which allowed me to understand what I should keep or change in my final product.