College Magazine Evaluation



I started the project by making a Blog, I copied the brief into the Blog so that I can see it as I work, I then listed the convections of a magazine, and the convections of a contents page. I then started viewing and evaluating magazine covers from different genres of magazines, trying to sum up what all the magazines had in common and what was essential to a good magazine cover. I made a very quick and simple draft of a front cover, I highlighted the essential features of a magazine such as The Master head, The main picture and a main article.

As the magazine Is for college, and student I looked at magazines, for a young age group, like KERRANG. The first pat of the magazine I had done is the master head, I got influence from other magazines for the font, which I created in Photoshop, the Master head is simply “Wyke Magazine”, I didn’t find it necessary to be anything else. I used the selling slogan “The BEST source of news at wyke” because it attracts its readers at wyke, I capitalised the word “BEST” to entice people to purchase the magazine. Then to see how effective the Master head I made was, I added it to my first draft of the front cover so that I could get the right size of match the rest of the magazine.

I went online to find a suitable barcode for my magazine, which I found on Google images. I then began making the finishing piece, I started with the photo as I could make up a story around it, I thought it suitable to have a member of wyke staff to feature, as it is a college magazine. I Started by asking Ray, who works in the media department, allow me to photograph him for the magazine, but he refused, so I began asking my friends, the all refused as well so I had a photo taken of myself, after viewing the magazines I noticed at the photo is often the dominant part of the magazine and even covers the master head, I went for the same effect with my photograph, it covers most of the front cover, and some of the Master head.

The background for the Magazine I chose because it is bright and suitable for the type of magazine, for example, a black background would not support a college feel.
I then decided on suitable stories for the magazine, some I chose because they are actual college news or events, and some because I thought they where possible college news. I then decided to work on the contents page in Photoshop, I started with the Title “Contents page” and then made the boxes to separate the two parts of my contents page.

To conclude, I had created a front cover and mock up contents page to a college magazine, by reviewing a few magazines to gain ideas for my own magazine, I then Put together the individual conventions of a college magazine, to be suitable for the Students who the magazine is targeted at.



Alex Wise

Front Cover

Barcode

The barcode ill use for my college magazine

Second Draft, NOT VERY GOOD

Masterhead and Selling line

College Magazine Masterhead

Quick Draft

First Official Draft for college magazine cover

Unusual Layout

"Rolling Stone" Magazine, the cover has the title at the top covered with the head of Barack Obama, The picture Coveres almost the entire cover.

List of everything on the magazine cover:

Title

Date

Website

Issue

and the picture

THATS IT

and yet its eye catching and actually looks pretty good

not to mention the fact that "Rolling Stone" is a music magazine

Another music Magazine cover, NME, this magazine is set out completely different, the title, most of the sub headings and description are all bunched up onto the left hand side, leaving a large space for a portrait picture of Dave Grohl, frontman of the Foo Fighters, Unlike KERRANG which had them all on the cover.

The Music Magazine "KERRANG" has a very simple very common design for thier front covers, Big Tiltle at the top of the cover, the res covered with a large photo, in this case the "Foo Fighters", the picture is Often covered with a subtitle or in the name of the band and a brief discription of what is on the inside.

Conventions of a contents page

Page numbers
Order
Headings
Images
Brief descriptions
Functional
Sponsors
Subscriptions

Conventions of a collage magazine

Title
Picture
Date & issue number
Sub Headings
Information
Define target audience
Logo
Main Issues
Slogan
Email Address
Website

The Brief

preliminary exercise,using dtp and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a studant in medium close up plus some appropriatly laid out text and a masthead. additionally you must produce a mock up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of dtp

MAIN TASK: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazin. All images and text used must be original, producd by you- minimum of four images.

Presentation of your workThe presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following:
powerpoint presentation
a blog
a podcast