Evaluation for College Magazine

I have made a magazine and a contents page for a magazine called “The wonders of Wyke.” The product represents social groups because on the front cover is a photo of a girl who is a student. Whilst taking the photo I made sure that the girl posing for the photo- Gabby was smiling. This is so it shows to the audience of the people reading my magazine that she is having a good time and that she is enjoying being part of these teenage ‘social groups’ whilst at Wyke. The audience/ target market for my magazine would be students at Wyke or people in the last year of secondary school that may want to come to Wyke College. Therefore, I thought I would inform the people who are already at Wyke activities what are occurring and I thought I would persuade people interested into going to college to come by adding things such as Trips and Sporting activities what are going on. I attracted the audience by adding bright colours to my front cover so that the main points of writing would stand out and the people reading my magazine would see them. Looking back at my perfume design I feel that I have learn’t a lot of things. This is because when doing the poster of my perfume bottle I didn’t need to apply any conventions. However, whilst doing the college magazine I have learn’t all the conventions what are required on both the front cover and the double page spread. I believe that I have used these conventions what I have learn’t to challenge real life media products. This is because using conventions such as a masthead and a skyline makes your product look good and also makes it look like a real life product. Therefore, my College Magazine is challenges forms of real life media products. Whilst using technologies for the process of making the college magazine I have learn’t where to place conventions. Whilst using Photoshop to make my front cover I have learn’t where to place important conventions such as the barcode, the date and more complex things such as the Masthead and the Skyline. The skyline goes at the top of the page with the Masthead below it, with the date going just below that. Moreover, the sell lines go on the left or right hand side of the page with the barcode on the bottom right of the cover. If I were to create a college magazine again I would control my time management. By doing this it would have allowed me to improve my work, make it would better and it would have also helped me to challenge forms and conventions of real media products. I believe that if I did control my time management I would have been able to apply some more vital conventions towards my front cover such as a teller and a kicker. In addition to this I would have taken more photos so that I had a variety of photos to choose from over what photo to have as my front cover.