Drafting and planning

Self assessment of codes and conventions:

1) Have you justified your decisions on your blog? How could you enhance these blog entries?

I feel like I have justified my decisions fairly well on my blog post, however by taking into account my peers feedback, I understand that I could have analysed my ideas further. For example: talking about the connotative effects of the colours and why I used them, I could have also thought more deeply about where I put the cover stories and did I necessarily need secondary images on some of the covers.

2) How do you plan to use these in the future?

I will definitely use these music magazine cover pages to see how layout is used in research to similar products. I will also use them for my drafting and planning in particular because by setting the layout of these covers, I have a better understanding now, of how to draft my layout for my own music magazine. It's quite shocking how before this task, I didn't realise how much layout affects a target audience. I now know how to use specific fonts and images to target a specific group of people. In terms of organisation, I will use these covers when I take various different photographs for my own magazine because they'll influence me on how a certain image can link to the main cover line etc.