Evaluation of First Attempt at Foundation Portfolio Coursework

Planning

I have been told for my main task I have collected useful images in my Pinterest. I have also made useful notes on my XXL and Hip Hop Weekly Magazine, as I have referred closely to artists, fashion and advertising.
Also I have been told that my mood board has shown awareness of the lives of my audience. However my collection of layout features hasn’t been linked to my planning.
Also my questionnaire asks useful questions, however my evaluation lacks comments on what I have learned from it.
For improvements on my second attempt I could add more detail on my questionnaire evaluation and comment and write about what I have learned from my questionnaire.
Also I am going to be relating my questionnaire and evaluation to my music magazine to show that I have done that because my questionnaire said that and therefore I could refer it to my evaluation.
I will also be adding more magazines for annotation for different types of genres, such as Classical music and Pop music, to show that I have a clear understanding of other genres apart from my Hip-Hop genre.

Construction

I have also been told that I am competent in using particular ICT skills in various software, and not just using Photoshop and InDesign, but also using Gimp and Portrait Professional 11, my own softwares out of college.
I was also told that i have been cropping my images well, and my pictures were taken well, too, as they were neither blurry nor dodgy.

However my for my final piece I have left a lot of dead space on the front cover and on my double page spread.
For improvements I will be showing more print screens of my work, to show my work before and after, and general improvements. I will also be covering the dead space with more cover lines and more pictures. I will also be presenting more and different pictures of my photoshoots.
For my mood board I will be adding more images and more different types of fonts my genre.
I have been told that the three colours that I have used matched well, as I only used three different types of colours; red, white and black, I will be sticking with these colours because they are similar to my XXL magazine.
I will also get more models for my photoshoots, and that are suitable for my genre; Hip-Hop.

Evaluation
For my evaluation I was told that I am lacking knowledge about the XXL Media Kit, and my evaluation was too general. However I was also told that I have made a link between the front cover of my XXL magazine and my own which illustrated what I was aiming for. I have also explained my choices of models in relation to my genre in detail, which is showing understanding of conventions.


Therefore for improvements I will be focusing on my media kit a lot, to show understanding about it.