Magazine Evaluation

Brief

For the preliminary task with Ms Elger, we were asked to create a new school magazine’s cover and contents page within Photoshop, featuring a mid-shot photo of a student within the background, along with some appropriately laid out text and a masthead.

Mock Up Images / Flat Plan

Mock Cover

From the start, I wanted to have a semi-posh feel to the cover, in order to add both comedic effect and class (no pun intended). All the cover lines were also related to in-school activities and events, so it becomes relevant to the students, and news that may effect them is also placed in it in order to lure people into buying it - by giving news of upcoming events in the school, you give them a reason to keep buying it (keeping up to date with the times).

Mock Contents Page

In order to attract the younger audience (the students), I gave the contents page a sort of "comic" feeling to it, to keep the tone informal whilst relevant (the panels would be filled with pictures related to the school. The contents list is also easy to read through, being clearly labelled and having relatively large text.

Skills Development – What did we learn?

I learnt how a magazine cover should be laid out – how it’s colour schemes, use of font, choice of cover lines and overall style can contribute towards targeting a specific audience, as well as what makes a good contents page.

That, and people always look better with top hats.