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Coursework Feedback

This is the feedback that I received from my lecturer which was for my main task, ancillary tasks and website. I am really happy with the grades I have achieved so far but I feel if I take on the feedback given, I will be able to improve my products in order for me to get an even better grade.

I have found the feedback really helpful and I understand what sort of things I can do to my product for me to improve the grade I've gotten. I found that when looking at all 3 feedback sheets, the main thing for me to do is to add more regionality into my products. This is very important to do as this is what is part of the criteria for the coursework. 

Progress

This is my completed billboard which in comparison to my other post on it previously, it has changed quite a bit. With me changing my magazine name from MINK to CRAZE, I had to put a new title on with this as the name instead. I also sharpened the image slightly in order for it to come out in the best quality possible, I then played around with the brightness and contrast till I thought it looked best. As part of the coursework, the magazine that I created had to be regional so I had to incorporate regionality into my billboard somehow. I decided to mention the North East in a small heading below the title which then linked in with the genre of my magazine by talking about women and fashion.

Magazine Name

When I first began creating my magazine, the initial name idea for it was MINK. I went along creating some of the magazine, using this name. However, when doing some research for my magazine, I came across the company 'Peta' which is an animal rights campaign. Their campaign opposes the use of animals for producing clothing that utilizes fur, leather, wool, or silk. 

PETA Asia-Pacific supports the PETA campaign "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur", in which celebrities appear nude to express their opposition to wearing fur.

Mink is a common name for a mammal of the Mustelidae family which also includes otters, weasels, badgers, wolverines, and polecats. When I came up with the name, it wasn't chosen because of the animal. Mink is also a colour which was the reason behind me using this for my magazine name.

However, after looking at the Peta campaign and researching into the background of using animal fur, I thought it would be more suitable to change my magazine name. Fur is massive thing in the fashion industry, coming from both sides of being against the use of it or being all for it.

The model on my magazine is also wearing a faux fur jacket on the front cover, if I had kept MINK as my magazine name, I realised that this would of caused a lot of controversy.

I have decided to re name my magazine 'CRAZE' as this is definitely more suitable for my genre and fits in with the idea of fashion being a 'craze.'

DPS update

This is my double page spread which still has a lot of work to do on it. I decided to use a staple Autumn fashion piece as the focus of my magazine so that it linked in with the theme and genre of my magazine.

Peer Assessment

 In todays media lesson, each student went around the computers in the class and wrote two positives and one improvement on post-it notes in order to get an idea of how well we are doing with our blogs. The overall feedback I got was very positive and it was good to read what other people thought about my blog. A lot of people commented on how detailed my posts were and that I had put lots of research into the work that I was doing. The improvements that included me using more platforms to show my work as I haven't really used a variety of them, so this is feedback that I will definitely be taking on board.

After reading through the feedback, I looked through my blog myself and made a few points on which I thought were good and how I could improve my blog. What I really like about my blog is the overall design of it and that I try to keep it as organised as possible, making it look well presented and professional. One thing that I found I could improve on is including more time management posts. I don't really have many which shows my progress and how I am handling my work to meet deadlines etc, so this is something I will begin doing.