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.