Evaluation 7

Lessons from my project journey
From developing this magazines I have learnt a range of things both from the perspective of making the magazine myself and the industries who make the magazines professionally. Going into the preliminary task I already had an image in my mind of what this magazine would look like, I had seen plenty of magazines before and they all had pretty much the same format. I thought I’d just make a “budget version” of those magazines yet through my progression I found the importance of originality, seeing the artists I wrote about and thinking about the audience that would read it I began to feel hypocritical. I spoke about creating new music but was not creating a new magazine. I learnt that what makes a good magazine is not how good it looks or even the content it has but just the very skill of communicating with the reader and making them want to come back for more. Though larger companies may have more funding each and every magazine started with the aim of conveying a thought or idea that only that magazine could represent, the designing comes later.