The evaluation for my magazine page

Evaluation on my magazine page

 

Before my individual research, we were given an article from the Newsbeat. We read through it individually and took notes from it. It talks about the music industry trying to deal with piracy for more than 10 years. In class we done individual research and took noted from websites like BBC, guardian, bpi, media etc. with these notes we done a discussion/ debate on agreeing and disagreeing that file-sharing isn't affecting the music industry negatively. From my research I paraphrased it to form my own article on a magazine page. The most challenging part of the research was to find what celebrities have said about illegal file-sharing. The other hard part was finding information that says illegal file-sharing isn't wrong because people try encouraging others to buy music rather than downloading it illegally. I believe 'The Daily Mail' has helped me find the most important information I needed. The information i have got from The Daily Mail was Shakira's positive view about illegal file-sharing.

In my journalistic writings I have used rhetorical questions to make the readers want to read on. I have used 1st person language to add my point of view on illegal file-sharing and used 3rd person language as I was talking about two different artists (50-cent & Shakira) and quoted their views. I layered writings in a 3 line block columns. And have used both high and low lexis as a wide range of age groups may read a music magazine.

I have used a special pack called the InDesign which slightly looks like Photoshop. This is where I have done the general designing of the magazine page. I have also placed an enlarged picture of Shakira on the right side of my magazine. I have used PowerPoint word to write out the draft of my article to make sure i don't have little errors like spelling mistakes and so on. My strengths in my opinion were that have done the colour contrast well with the background and text.

Publishing was generally easy; the only problem was that the firewall kept blocking some parts of the page which made it much more difficult to blog my magazine onto blogger. My magazine is now available on blogger, which everyone and anyone to see. I have asked two people to feedback on my work. I have wrote some of what my friends have said onto my blogger for everyone to see where I have gone wrong and what they think was good about my magazine page.

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