Evaluation

When creating  my College magazine the first thing I had to do was start researching images of college magazines. My target audience was students between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. To do this i looked on google at pictures of front cover and contents pages, and also analysed the front cover and contents pages of two college magazines, which helped me develop my ideas for my own. I decided to base my magazine on the college generally, and took a combination of long shots and medium shots around the college. To put my front cover and contents page together i experimented with different layouts and effects on photoshop, which helped me decide what suited my magazine best.

I decided to use blue as the font colour on the masthead because it is the colour of the wyke logo and also is a conventional colour to use in a magazine aimed at young people. I decided to use a different font on each word on the masthead because it stands out to catch the audience's attention, and also appears youthful. I used a mid shot of a student for my front cover page, which i then cut out and placed onto a background of a long shot which I took of the college grounds. I decided to do this because it is conventional to have a shot of a student on the front cover, and also there are students socialising in the background which gives the impression that Wyke has a good social atmosphere.
For the contents page i decided to use the colours of blue and a picture of the college entrance for the background, the blue to go with the front cover and the picture to show what the college looks like.I used a red font colour to stand out against the background and make it easy to read. I placed the pictures i have taken of groups of students and the front entrance of Wyke down the side and along the bottom as after looking at other college magazines i discovered this was conventional and went with the layout of the contents page.

The ideology of this magazine is that it portrays the idea that sucess in education is a good thing as the model on the front cover is holding her books, and also articles such as "Journalism. What paths do you need to take?" are featured in the contents. The magazine attracts the audience's attention because it features a young student on the front cover, and also features articles on the contents page which interest young strudents such as " Student executive. Who's got your vote?".

I used the photoshop effect Drop shadow on the masthead on the front cover, and on the "Life at Wyke" text on the contents page to make it stand out and catch the audience's attention. I used the outer glow on the text on the front cover to make it stand out and easy to read.