College Magazine Project

                                                  My College Magazine Project

1. I set up my google mail account. my google mail address is: dalebarber23@gmail.com

2. I set up my blogger account. my blogger address is:

3. I set up my surveymonkey account. my surveymonkey account is: DBarber23

4. I set up my issuu account. my issuu acount is: DBarber23

5. This magazine front cover is very conventional and follows most of the generic conventions of a magazine front cover. It is a simple design and is easy to look at because it is not overcrowded with articles; i think the simplicity makes it more eye catching because you are drawn to the picture and lead article and don't get distracted by anything else. Having the image on the right is unusual because the main image is usually in the center to follow the rule of 3. The colour scheme is very eye catching because all the colours are bright. There is also not too many colours too make it look tacky but there are the right amount of colours to make it interesting. There are three different fonts on the front cover; all of them are very similar and the colour is the most visible change to any of the text. This magazine would appeal to students who are studying or are interested in sports. If this magazine was to be sold at a college which is specifically sports, it would be more successful than if it was at a college which had no specific type of course, it would be less successful because sports aren't something everyone likes. Overall I think this front cover is successful and eye catching because of its simplicity. i also like the way that it follows most of the generic conventions of a magazine front cover but also has changed some like the image being on the right and going against the rule of 3.



6. This is my flatplan sketch of my front cover. it shows what kind of shot that i wanted to use and the direction that the model should look. i included a simple font for my masthead because i wanted a relatively simple font for my masthead. this was my first sketched ideas of my magazine and how i wanted it to look. The colours involved would be a black jumper on the model and a grey back round and then a black masthead. The articles i will include are: new college bands albums, a tutor retiring after 35 years and the main article would be about a new front man, the model in the photo.   

7. These are the fonts that i could have used on my front cover as a masthead. The one in the middle is the one that i used on my finished front cover. I used this font because it was eye catching and easy to look at unlike some others that i looked at, like the mad scientist font, above on the right on my final font. It was also like a standard font but with enough variation to make it interesting but not too much to make it un readable. My final font also doesnt follow a specific genre, unlike the one on the top right which is clearly a font belonging to the metal genre, i didnt want a font which followed a genre because my magazine is aimed at a whole college not a specific type of person who likes a certain genre.

 8. This is the original photo that i took for both my contents page and my front cover.

   - To make the image that is on the front cover from this original, i cut out the model and slightly changed the lighting to make it a little bit lighter but not too bright.

   - In the image for the contents page, i again cut the model out of the picture but with this picture i made it darker so that you could read the font easier over the image and didnt want it to be a fully focussed clear image.

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Open publication - Free publishing - More screenshots

10. This is my finished Magazine front cover and my finished contents page:

Evaluation of my college magazine- My front cover's image i think is a strong image because the model is not looking directly at the camera which is different from most other magazine front covers because the model generally looks at the camera. I also think the masthead is good because it doesnt follow a certain genre and is still not a boring standard font; its also a instantly recognisable font. I dont like how poorly the image has been cut out, it doesnt look right because you can see white bits around the image; to cover this up i would change the backround colour to white. i dont like the yellow box that i added for colour because it stands out too much and doesnt match a colour system. To conclude there are a few things that i would change on my magazine front cover to make it look a lot better like the colour system, but i also do like the masthead and the main image.

Evaluation of my college magazine- My Contents page is not a very colourful contents page because it followed the same colour scheme as the front cover. The image is too similar to the one on the front cover but is still a good image. There is also a massive blank space where the models head can be seen but it still looks strange with a big space. The text is also a little hard to read but is not unreadable. To conclude, my contents page is a simple design and easy to find the information but does not look good because of the dull colours.