I created my
front cover on Photoshop and I feel like the photography I used on my front
cover went well with the college magazine. I like how the image I chose shows a
happy, learning student, the fact that she is reading an open book and smiling
gives a good and happy impression and mood to the layout of the magazine. The images
is staged but looks realist which makes the image more believable to the reader,
the student is wearing her own clothing which could make it hard to identify
who is the target audience but because she is wearing her student ID card shows
that the magazine is aimed at students. I decided to put more photography on
the contents page to show the range of college life. I still put an image of
the same student that I used in my front cover to show relative but I also put
other student in different environment and situations.
I enjoyed
manipulating some of the images on Photoshop, I didn’t do much to the image I used
on the front cover, and all I did was crop some areas that I didn’t want and
place the image in the centre, by doing this it made the image the focal point
of the front cover which I wanted. I did more manipulating to the images I used
on the content page; I used a tool on InDesign that faded out the images to
blend better with the white background which I liked using.
I really
like layout I chose for the front cover, I like how I put the text on both
sides of the main image but placed the more important ones on the left side of
the page to create the lower left third, this is a good factor to have on the
front cover as it’s a key factor in distributing magazines. I used a simple
layout for my content page with similar factor as the front cover, because all
my text is on the left and my images are on the right
My masthead
is LSC which is an abbreviation of Leyton Sixth form College. I used this because
the youth of today would recognize and relate as it is the language that they
use and know of. The colour scheme that I have chosen are orange/red, black and white which are
colours that I’ve taken from the image as she is wearing a black jacket, white
top and her student ID card, by doing this I feel like the colours and image complement
each other, and this is consistent throughout the content page. I chose a big,
bold and strong font for the masthead as I wanted it to be eye catching and remembered;
also I made it an orange/red colour so it stands out from the off white background.
The colour scheme was also used on the cover lines as I wanted everything to
link, I used different fonts as I wanted to portray that the college life is
different. I chose relative and modern cover lines to appeal to the target
audience. One of my cover lines was ‘Upcoming Events’ I feel like this would
attract more readers as my target audience would be interested in find out what
events and shows they can get involved with.
I feel like
my content page need to be improve as I rushed I and didn’t spend as much time
on it then I did with the front cover, this is shown in the final product and I
wish that I had put more effort in my content page however I’m still satisfied with
what I created in time that I had. I only have verbal feedback from my target
audience and most of them can tell that I put more effort into creating my
front cover then my content page. In consideration of my own opinion and
audience feedback my three key points for development when producing the main
task is:
·
Spend the
same amount on all pages
·
Don’t rush
work
·
Put equal
amount of effort in all work.
Benedicte Beya
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