Evaluation

Before I began to design my magazine, I looked at several other magazines to get some form of idea of what to do. I believe that I have managed to create a decent looking magazine front cover as I have used several conventions of a magazine front cover, I have made things like the magazine name sound like a professional name, and I also believe that the picture I have used for my magazine front cover looked like a professional medium close up. But I also believe that on some aspects of my magazine front cover it wasn’t very well planned. The font I used was a very simple font and I could have used something that was more eye catching. Also when it came to cutting out the picture it wasn’t cut very good and looked sort of rushed. I also belive that I could have done some more drafts for my contents page as I only did one and I used that draft.

I believe that the image that I used was good to relate to the mean cover line. The main cover live said “folders, are they really as good as people say they are” and the picture included two people looking into a folder looking rather puzzled. I placed this picture in the centre of the front cover so that people would see it and wonder what the story is about. I also think that the other cover lines I used were realistic storeys that you would find in a real college magazine.

The font I used was very simple and in white, this was to go with the colourer scheme of my magazine front cover which was light blue, white and black. I choose these colours as they aren’t to out standing and wouldn’t make it look like a magazine about something else.

I think that my research stage went well as I analysed 2 magazine covers and a contents page. Despite the good analyse I believe I should have done more than what I did and if I did I would have had some better ideas for my magazine front cover. I also think that I could have done more on the basic conventions on a magazine front cover.

I think that my planning also went very well. I managed to make 2 drawn drafts or my magazine front cover and one draft of my contents page, and I believe that all my drafts where very imaginative and original. Despite this, I also believe that I could have done more drafts to I would have had chance to put more ideas down on paper.

I think that I managed my time well, as I had plenty of time to fully complete my magazine front cover and contents page, I also believe I evenly spread out my time spent researching and planning. If I could improve anything about my time management it would be to not do as much of my work in lesson time and do a bit more at home.

Overall I believe that I did a good job on my magazine. I found that using Publisher to put it together was much easier than using Photoshop. If I could improve anything it would be my picture taking skills as even though I thought the picture that I took was professional, the only reason I picked it was because the other 2 pictures weren’t as good as that one.

Contents Page

Front Cover.

Planning: Rejected Pictures.

These are some of the other pictures that i took as my main image for my front cover, but i choose not to use them.

Planning: Choosing my main picutre.

Over all i have took 3 pictures. I took 3 pictures as i belived if i had more choise it would help improve the finished product. I have chosen to use this picture as it looks much more natural than the other two and i belive it is better quality.

Planning: Contents Page

Planning: Front Cover 2

This is the front cover i am bacing my finised product on. I choose this one because it is more imaginative and te infomation is spread throughout the page more, unlike my other draft.

Planning: Front Cover 1

I choose not to use this one as i belive that it was a very simple design. also i belive that all the infomation on it was all pressed to one side when it should have been spread throughout the page.

Planning: Spider Diagram

LIIAR

Language
Headline, Title, Slogan.

Institution
BBC, Internet, Radio, TV.

Ideology (magazine topic)
College, Music, Food, Animals ect..

Audience
Age, Sex, Occupation, Sexuality, Interests.

Representation
How its presented.

Microsoft Publisher tutorial playlist.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F8C16BEF6A1E6B49&search_query=microsoft+publisher+tutorial

Contents page.

Taken from http://goodreporting.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

All of the storeys in the magazine can help us know what the magazine is about, so take the name of the storeys, for example "Emoticon Designers" and "the Flaws of Adobe CS4" it is clear to us that the magazine is about technology and people who are interested in the Internet. It also has a small description of the story underneath the name of the story so we can have a small taster of what we are about to read and also to try and also to try and suck us in to read it.

Analysis of a collage magazine cover.

Taken from www.assumption.edu/.../winter06/default.html.

Masthead - Written in a sophisticated font to signify that this is a magazine about serious things. Also linked to education as it is a College magazine.

Dateline - Right next to the masthead so you know who published the magazine, what volume it is and when it was published.

Main Image - Linked to the main cover line, which is "Quest To China" it shows a picture of the person who the main cover line is about.

Coverlines - This magazine doesn't really use alot of coverlines, but it does use some. The main headline, "Quest To China" really captivates people into reading as instead of using a simple coverline like "one girls journey to china" it uses the word quest. It also uses smaller coverlines to help give an insight to what is in the magazine.

Reserch: Photoshop.

Taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12c5hJFiIWU

Target Audiance

The target audiance is important for all magazine producers to consider, becuase if you aim it at the wrong kind of people then the odds are that your magazine will not go that far. You need to take into mind lots of thing such as; age, sex, class, where you live, occupation, interests and sexuality. Say if you create a fishing magazine for the more middle aged people, if you use lots of cartoon pictures you won't be getting the audiance you want.