Research and Planning: Preliminary Task Evaluation

This is my College magazine. As you can see it is still pretty plain, but i am still learning and it had to be done within 2 weeks.

My likes of this magazine is the colours that I have used in this magazine are in good effect as you are able to read each text clearly and when on a shelf, the cover would stand out and would get people to look at the cover. On the Contents, it has a lot of images on the page which is showing what will be in the magazine as images are more interesting than text.

My dislikes of the magazine is at the bottom of the cover, it is rather plain and if I had more time I would make sure that information would be there and use the space appropriately. my dislikes on the contents page is the text is all over the place and not in real order, so next time i could make it more formal and easy to read.

The college magazine does look like a typical magazine and contents page as it has a mast head at the top of the page, then there is a medium shot image which takes a lot of the space on the magazine, and then we have sub-headings going around all over the cover. On the contents page, there is text around the whole of the page then images that are relevant to the text which is being displayed.

For my cover, I used Photoshop, and I chose the write font for the type of magazine i was going to produce. I put an image from what we went and took in the college to make it relevant to a college magazine. I then used used the text box to put text around the page and then made it more interesting making the boxes into different shapes.

For my Contents page, I used Indesign to design my page. It is quite simple my page but i just added a few images in relevance to the headings that are going to be in the magazine. i put another mast head at the top of the page and more headings around the page. i put the images around the page to fill the gaps and make it more appealing.