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.

Final design of my college magazine front cover

Mock up of contents page

For the second part of the preliminary task i had to create a mockup of a contents page to go with the front cover of my college magazine.

I decided to use a welcome note as i saw alot of magazines i researched into had one, i think this is a really good idea as it welcomes the reader making them feel they know the writers and can relate to the people who write this.

I decided to use 3 images of main headlines along with the page numbers which attracts the reader.

Finally i decided to split the articles into two different sections, the special feautre one off articles and the regular articles that will appear weekly, i think this is a good idea as it is clear to the reader what they will find everyweek and what is an exclusive they will never see again.

Mock up of Front cover

I created twoockups of the front cover, both ising ICT.

The first ICT mockup i did shown on the left was the first draft. I decided it didn't look how i wanted it to and it had too much information for the front cover of a college magazine. I also didn't like how i had kept the background white with edges left on the outerside of the magazine. Although this mockup looks professional it doesn't look very original.

The second ICT mockup i did shown on the left i decided was much better than the first, it is alot more organised. I could have the background of the magazine as something

relating to wyke possibly the front of one of the buildings. I could then have a main image in the bottom left hand corner in a medium close up shot of perhaps a student, which includes a headline and a subheading underneath this over the top of the picture of the student. I could then include a plug on the top right of the magazine in perhaps a close up shot, this shows that although i only had to use one photograph in a medium close up shot, i will be expressing my skills by using more than one type of shot and including a plug along with a caption.

This mockup also includes a tagline which is already the colleges but i thought it would be a good idea to try and integrate it into my front cover some how.

Planning mind map

I created a brainstorm of all the ideas i had after being given this task and what i thought would be needed to include on the front cover of the magazine aswell as the mockup of the contents page. I found this a really useful thing to do as i could refer back to it for ideas and it was a begining to the task which wasn't rushed, i had time to evaluate my ideas and by researching i got more ideas which i put together to make my final products.

Possible Article Headlines?

I created this post to store the different ideas i have on which articles i could use on the front cover of my college magazine.

The articles i came up with are:
- Wyke's Fashion show proves a huge hit! .
- Boy Auction for charity, find out how much we raised, which boy raised the most cash and who
spent it
- New Oak building wins an award
- An exclusive interview with Wykes most promising student
- HPV Jab comes to your college
- What happens after college?
- Does Wyke have talent?
- Stressed about exams?
- Who is better at football? Girls or Boys? Wyke students battle of the sexes!
- Find out who you chose as this years best dressed student, the male and the female!

Colour

I researched into colours i could use to feature on both my contents page and my front cover, i didn't choose dark colours as i have decided my main image will have alot of dark colours init and i don't want it to look too swamped.


Pale pink
Peach
Red
Orange
Yellow
Mint
Green
Sky Blue
Aqua
Navy Blue
Light Purple
Purple