Evalution of Preliminary Product

Evaluation: Front Cover

One way my product uses the conventions of a school magazine cover is through the use of a middle headshot, a lot of school magazines use a middle head shot to make it more personal to the person that’s reading it. I think it is good if the model is looking at the camera straight on, as he does on my front cover, again it makes it more personal. Additionally I tried to make my magazine as though it belonged to a school and that it was obvious, the subtitle “NEW TERM” straight away implies this. In my layout I tried to draw the reader’s attention to the headlines on the cover. I made sure that the subtitles when around the model and not straight across, otherwise this would look odd and perhaps unreadable, I also made the subtitles bigger or smaller in size depending on how important it was, such as new uniform I thought was rather important so made it bigger than the rest. Furthermore I tried to make the cover look modern so that younger audiences such as pupils were not put of.

My magazine will be aimed at a few different audiences including pupils’, parents and teachers I think something within the magazine will relate to them and find interesting to read. I made the front cover pleasing to look at and so it wouldn’t put pupils off from reading it. I used layers in Photoshop to make different parts of the cover stand out from the rest, for example the main title.

Evaluation: Contents Page

In my contents page it has all the features you would normally see in a regular magazine, although in a different way. I have included a main title a background picture and subtitle to which is the contents of the magazine. My contents page has the same font and affect as the front cover, I will have this type of design throughout the magazine, also I make sure that the subtitles are not running over the background picture this will again ensure that the audience can read it. I think that the picture is suitable as it shows what’s within the school and could show readers, mainly parents, what’s to offer. The contents are shown in order of what’s to come within the magazine. I think that this is the best way to display them.