Peer Review

     After presenting my magazine to the class I received some critiques, but not a lot. I was proud of myself after receiving minimal critiques. After watching other people in class get critiqued on their magazine, I slowly realized what I was missing on my magazine.

     I was told to fix my margins, this was something I didn’t notice until my peers pointed it out to me, but it was an extremely valid point. Two of my articles on the cover page were hanging off the edge and needed to be moved further to the right and even with the rest of my articles. I was also told that my cover page of my magazine appeared to actually look like a real magazine, which I thought was the best compliment to ever receive on this project. 

I was then told that my content page needed some changes before sending to Cambridge to be graded. I was told by my peers to add more article titles and description so it will appear as a true magazine. I was also told I should increase the page number, so it looks like an actual magazine as well, which have a lot of pages. I was also told to remove the border that I had around my articles and page numbers along with the description of each article. 

Then I received a valid point to move the title of my feature article from my second page of to my first page of my feature article, along with the name and age of the golfer that I am interviewing. I was also told to write an introduction in the new space I will acquire on the top of my second page of my feature article. Then I was told to fix the margins of my feature article, so they were not hanging off the page to avoid looking to jumble looking. My typography needed to be changed because some did not truly correlate too well.

All of the critiques I received were incredibly valid and I will use all of the advice to fix my magazine right away. Overall, the critiques I received were basically what I knew I needed to fix when I was watching and critiquing other people’s magazines, so they are necessary changes that need to be made before submitting my portfolio to Cambridge.