EVALUATION OF COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRODUCTION

This magazine front cover does follow the codes and conventions of a magazine because we don’t want the coverlines over the main image which they aren’t but they are different sizes which isn’t good.

The title for the magazine is the biggest text on the page but it is the same font as the rest of the text on the page so it isn’t unique and so it isn’t really that effective, looking back now there is a lot i have done wrong with this magazine but i will learn from this to improve in my music magazine.

Another thing that i have done for this magazine is made sure that the main coverline is the second largest text on the page and that it is obvious so that the attention is brought to it by the reader. It could’ve been a bit higher on the page and then i could’ve used a bottom strip or something similar.

The main image isn’t too bad because i have used direct address so that the model is looking down the lens in order to attract the audience’s attention but the image is slightly out of focus so it is less effective and looks unprofessional. In my music magazine i will have to make sure that all of my images are in focus so that they are more effective and striking to the audience.

Another thing i have done is put the issue date underneath the masthead of the magazine but i have forgot to put on the price or put on the fact that it is a free college magazine and this is one of my downfalls on this magazine.

I have used a skyline that is bold and uses play on words so that it is more interesting for the reader. The size of the text might be a bit too big though because it is slightly bigger than some of the coverlines and they are more important to the reader than the skyline.

I haven’t used a barcode on my magazine and i have left a lot of empty space on the page as a whole which makes it look very unprofessional.

Another downfall of my magazine is that it isn’t obvious which coverlines are separate because they are so close together and they aren’t the same size either

I would say that for a main image on the front cover there is too much going in the background and that’s why some of the text is less effective and harder to read

The word contents is the largest text on the page which follows codes and conventions of a magazine and it is at the top of the page as well which is also conventional.

Most of the images on the page link to the article that they are next to, the only image that doesn’t is the image on the third column. Also, the image under the word contents and on the bottom of the page are just for making the page more aesthetically pleasing.

There is limited text on this page that is the same size on this page and is a very obvious problem, i will make sure that next time for my music magazine that there is continuity in size of the text and that the images match the text.

To comment on the college magazine as a whole product, i feel i could’ve done a lot better and i am just going to keep in mind all of the mistakes i have made and make sure that they aren’t repeated in my music magazine, this way i can show my progression and the knowledge i have gained during the time i have spent in the production of both magazine and the research that will have taken place in between.

The page numbers needed to go in front of the text to be conventional and it didn’t need the “pg” there but i will, again, change this and remember for my main task, the music magazine.