Evaluation

The preliminary task stated I had to create and design a front page of a college magazine and a mock up of the contents page. I researched both of these in the same style as I had to create and in other styles. I looked at real life college magazines already available and celebrity/fashion magazines. I took ideas from all of the research I underwent and merged them with my own ideas to create the aspects of the task I was asked to.

I decided to instead of use a standard block and boring font style for my masthead I would make it swirly and flexible which relates to student life at Wyke. Students need to be flexible in order to achieve to their highest standard thy must be willing. I used large font as it does need to stand out more than the other aspects of the front cover, however I did use the same font colour and the colour of the female students hair on the medium close up image, I did this to show a blend between them, I also decided to use this colour as the colour for the caption to go with the plug on the right hand side. I stand by this idea as I think it makes it all contrast together. This also shows I thought a lot about the colours I used in making my magazine and didn’t just use any old colour.

I decided to use the original Wyke College Logo and the tagline, this was less time consuming and is a great way for the magazine to be recognised. The font colour of the logo and tagline is purple. I decided to keep this colour and try to use it in other ways on the magazine, in the end I decided to use the colour as the font colour of the subheading to my main image. The Wyke College tagline which includes an image of two arrows half of it is coloured in green, I decided to keep this colour and integrate it into my magazine also. I did this by using the colour green for the date of publishing of my magazine and the main headline. I think these where both good ideas as it helps merge the whole front cover together.

When I researched other college magazines I found out that they did not include a price, because other colleges didn’t I decided I as well would advertise my magazine as being free.I took into account the gender issue of the magazine, I didn't want to feature a story or image which is only relevant to either the male or female students, I wanted it to apply to everybody, I did this by including both a male and a female student.

Overall I think I did a good job with my front cover of the college magazine, I used a range of ICT publications and although I never used anything on my blog which I personally had drawn I made up for this with the use of ICT, although I never used the scanner to scan any of my own work onto the computer I used a scanner to scan in magazine front covers and contents pages. If I was given this task to do again I would include work which I had done on paper and then scanned it in and also included a mood board in my planning section however I am happy with the amount of planning I achieved to do.