Evaluation of College Magazine

For my media project I had to sketch four sketches for my front cover magazine, and two content pages ideas for my content page, as I sketched them I had to choose one of my four sketches and sketch it on an A4 sheet of paper, as my final design.

I have chosen my first design because it is very eye catching as the picture will involve a group of girls hugging in a medium close up picture as my magazine front cover picture. I also included another picture which will be in the bottom right hand corner to make it more vivid. I like my design because I think it is very friendly and suitable for any age group.

After I designed my four sketches I had to conduct a questionnaire to collect ideas and information of how to design my magazine apart from my picture for example the strap line and the title. Another reason why I chose my first design because it is going to include a lot of information in the front cover, which are cover lines. Also the idea of having a logo is to represent the school and to show maturity and respect of the school. The idea of having a strapline is to summarise in an approrpiate way.

I didn’t chose my other designs because they only had one main picture and the main picture had one person taken in it, the idea of having more than one picture in the front cover will make it sensational. I also think that having a friend or group picture will represent the school as a friendly environment, and will give a positive reputation of the school by just looking at the picture.

For the softwares I used Photoshop and GIMP to manipulate and edit the pictures, and I found the softwares very useful and easy to use, however I didn’t use InDesign because I didn’t find it useful and very different from Photoshop.

Overall I think my front cover turned out really well and how I wanted it to be, however I could of improved it by adding another picture, to make it appealing. For my contents page I could have improved it by adding more effect to the background and changing the style of the contents list. Finally I am pleased with my work.

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