This is my finished college magazine, when looking at it I can see both good points and bad points. I am happy with what I managed to do given a week to do so but I can also see where I could have improved my work.
I believe I did well in sticking to the three colour rule, I chose the colours of red, white and blue. Using any more colours than this would have made my magazine look too busy.I also feel that I have done well with keeping the same theme flowing through my cover and contents page, making sure they look like they are form the same magazine.
All of the photo's used in my magazine (minus the school corridor) were taken by myself and I feel that they are all appropriate and fit for purpose.they all stay within the traditional theme of a college magazine. The main image on the cover was a medium-close-up which stayed with the original specification of the task.
I used stories which were also appropriate to college and the interests of my target audience. I also added a bar code, date and price to make my magazine look more authentic. I took what people had said in my interviews into consideration when deciding the price and what kind of stories to add to it. On my contents page I am happy I decided to use a small message from the editor paragraph. I like the ides and will hopefully use it in a future Media project.
However I feel I could have improved with my font sizes. I think that some are different sizes on my front cover. On the other hand I stuck to a traditional magazine cover layout by making sure that the Masthead was the biggest piece of writing on the cover. There is also a gap on the cover which could be used up by something. On my contents page I think that my writing is too large. It should be font size 14 at the most, this stops it looking like a traditional contents page of a magazine.There is also a small gap at the top which looks like it could be filled by something. I hope to improve next time by making my contents page look more exciting.
Your magazine cover is really eye-catching and you used really good images for the contents page and your story's are appropriate to the target audience.
ReplyDeleteThe only improvements I could give is that the bright blue background on the contents page could make the text difficult to read =)
I think the colour scheme is very good, it is eye catching as well as not being too bold.
ReplyDeleteI think the images on the contents page maybe could have been space better, as they look crammed at the side. Also, the font looks more like that of a rock magazine than a college magazine.
I like how you have positioned your text and the colours that you have used are bright and grab my attention straight away. I think that you could maybe use more text on your contents page and show more pages.
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