Peer Assessment

We have just engaged in the process of peer assessing each others work. We each assessed 3 other peoples work. The undertaking allowed me to both give constructive criticism aswell as giving me some clever ideas for my magazine I had not previously thought of doing. My feedback was mostly positive however I did receive some feedback which informed me of some areas in which I could improve the various features on the cover. The full list is below:

There was a suggestion that I should change the shades of green on the title as they were "very similar". Although I appreciate the feedback and this persons viewpoint, it is made slightly irrelevant due to the fact that this was the point of using the same glow colour around the title, this obviously being to create a coherant house style.


There was a positive where it was stated that the Mote Kontrol font suited the genre, which I agree with, the black outer glow gives an almost misty look, reinforcing the impression of darkness surrounding the Dubstep genre.

A comment was made that the bubbles surrounding the word Dubstep in the Mote Kontrol coverline were disliked by a single person, I will need to get more opinions on this although the vast majority of opinions on the design so far have been positive. 

The next point written down was that there was a good layout of the front page, although quite a lot of the features are unfinished,via was nice to find out that the overall organisation of my work was pleasing to the eye. This will allow me to continue my work knowing that the overall layout and design of the front page is aesthetically clear.


An interesting point was put across that the title of the magazine "Duble Take" was not easily recognisable. It was specified that the spelling was the key issue, evidently meaning that the spelling of Duble was not understood by one of my peers. Although I understand that the person had trouble deducing what the title said, to change the name to the correct spelling would take out the significance of the title and may cause confusion as to what genre the magazine is written about.

Another constructive point was the font used for the word "Dubstep" in the cover line was not coherent with the rest of the front cover. I shall take on board this point and am planning on changing the font on my finished piece of coursework.

It was noted that my contents page was coming along well, I can't believe I'm going to say this but I disagreed, I felt it lacked organisation and had no artistic merit whatsoever. This may have been partly based on the lack of components on the page however, I will take from this comment that I have picked a strong colour scheme which I will continue to use in the process of creating my contents page.

In addition to the previous point another one of my peers stated that there was a "strong house style" with a good colour choice. This reiterates what one of my other classmates had said about the contents pages overall development. Along with the added note made that the contents page was "beginning to look good"

The final point made was that "more stuff on the front page" or to put it a bit more clearly that there was too much space on my front page, now I don't mean to use the term "state the obvious" maliciously but seeing as my work is unfinished as of this point, it would be sensible to assume that more features need to be added and I am planning to do so momentarily.


Overall I feel I have gained some good critical feedback on my work, highlighting some key points I will consider on changing, some which I disagree with and gain further opinions on, and some which have been spotted which I shall immediately fix. The compliments given allow me to see what works well and what aesthetics can be used on my double page spread. The assessment has allowed me to both gain ideas from my peers and to further my progress on the development of my work.