Research and planning: Evaluation

College Magazine Evaluation

To produce material appropriate for the target audience and task I made sure that it was suitable for students to read, as that was my target audience. To do this I made sure my magazine had a picture of a student, therefor they would know that students are also the target audience. I made sure I used the correct font size's such as the masthead being a lot larger than just the cover stories, I did this correctly and think that all my text's were in the correct proportion to each other and the magazine. The only thing I would have improved about my font's was on the contents page change the list of the page's to a smaller size, and change the font as I don't seem it seems very professional. I would also like to add more cover stories to my front cover as I feel that it looks blank. 

To show my understanding of conventions of layout and page design I stuck to the three colour rule and made sure I put my photo and cover stories in the correct place. I did this by putting the photo in the centre as I wanted to show that the magazine was organised, so it would suggest that the college is also. I didn't stick to the three colour rule on my front cover as I only used yellow and blue whereas my plan was to use yellow, pink and blue as they are the colours used on the college logo, although there is a lot of brown on the cover so that may be classed as an extra colour. On my contents page I did stick to the three colour rule and used yellow, pink and blue on my contents page. 

I used ICT appropriately for the task set by using both photoshop and in design so I could show my skills on two programs, before creating my magazine I also did extra tasks so I got used to the software and could use it to the best of my ability when actually completing the task. I also appropriately integrated illustration and text by using the same colours and same text on both the front cover and contents page so it was obvious that my front cover and contents page was from the same magazine. 

I made sure I shot a variety of material for my front cover, so that if anything went wrong or I didn't like the picture or something small about the picture there was many I could use for a backup. I also uploaded the ones I wasn't over keen on or ones that I didn't shoot properly to say why I did not choose to use them. 

I manipulated and edited photographs so that they would be appropriate to the context for presentation, I manipulated the background image of the college to make it brighter. I didn't manipulate or edit the photographs as much as I should have as I should have cropped the photograph down as my model to make it into a more medium close-up than a mid shot.