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