Research and Planning: College Magazine Evaluation

I think I have used font size well on my front page as I have made my Masthead the largest font then followed by smaller fonts for the Bylines and story information, however I think that the font on my contents page is too big therefore it needs to be changed to a smaller font and add more pages. I understand that here should be different font sizes for certain things as the important things need to stand out and less important things can be in a smaller font as it isn't as relevant.

My magazine follows the three colour rule, I have used the colours- purple, black and yellow I came to this decision through my audience research as the most favoured colours were purple and yellow.

I think you can tell that the front cover and contents page are from the same magazine as it follows the same colour theme and font style.

The photographs that I took could of been better however I feel they were appropriate to the college magazine, I didn't stretch the photos because it would of disfigured the faces, however I think the photo on the front cover could of been bigger and more of a focus point. I was able to manipulate photographs to an appropriate size and have used both crop and resizing to do it.

I have included enough stories on the cover to grab the readers attention and want to buy the magazine, I could of included more stories on he contents page though. I have used an informal tone as I don't feel that formal language would of been very appropriate for the target audience, the language is suitable and reaches out to the the age group. 

I have understood the conventions of a magazine and put in a masthead, bylines, date and issue number, price and bar code and pictures.I have used both photoshop and In Design for this task and I think i have used them both appropriately for the task of making  a college magazine.