Evaluation of Preliminary Project
My magazine meets page conventions because it is centred around an image of a person, which is what almost all magazines about people do, since it gives it an element of humanity. It has a masthead at the top of the page, which sits just above the head of the sixth former pictured. I used a house style of blue, since the sixth former was wearing a blue suit at the time; and red. I used century gothic as the font for the masthead and segoe UI semibold for the red information which details what is inside the magazine and the blue cover line which helps to make these clear.
I used explosion shapes for the 'plus' and the offer in the top-left hand corner because it gives them a sense of importance and makes the text that is on them stand out more than the pieces of text which don't have shapes behind them, but while they are important they are also extras to the other information that is already on the page. I thought that my colour scheme of blue and red would be good because they contrast with each other a lot but they also stand out from the background of the photo that I used, that and the blue matches the suit of the sixth former, as I've said before.
I believe that my finished front cover is very good since it has a professional title which draws people in, (since it is at the top and in a shop the top is often the only part of a magazine that someone can see because they are all stacked one behind the other) and then enough information to make them want to read more, but not too much that the page looks overcrowded. Also, I think that the photo looks real (natural) which is great because I don't want it to look like it's obvious that it's staged because then it would look like the magazine editors hadn't put any effort into taking the picture. I'm also very pleased that the mise-en-scene fits in very well with the sixth former, and provides a good background for text since it isn't very busy. I used a mix of upper case only, and upper and lower case phases on my front cover to give it a bit of variety, I didn't want it to look like I had stuck with the same type of text for the whole of the front cover.
I believe that I could have managed my time for this project much better since I didn't finish planning the magazine or properly consulting my target audience before I actually had to start creating the actual front cover however saying this the few people that I did speak to felt that my magazine has a good basic genre, everything, so if they don't like one section they might still find some other sections of the magazine interesting.
In hindsight I should have got focused quicker when I was doing the magazine plan and target audience, I spent way too much time reviewing and annotating other typical magazine covers considering it was worth a low amount of marks compared to the front cover. I do not believe that this had a major negative impact on my front cover though, which I spent a good amount of time on also since it is worth the most marks in the task.
I used explosion shapes for the 'plus' and the offer in the top-left hand corner because it gives them a sense of importance and makes the text that is on them stand out more than the pieces of text which don't have shapes behind them, but while they are important they are also extras to the other information that is already on the page. I thought that my colour scheme of blue and red would be good because they contrast with each other a lot but they also stand out from the background of the photo that I used, that and the blue matches the suit of the sixth former, as I've said before.
I believe that my finished front cover is very good since it has a professional title which draws people in, (since it is at the top and in a shop the top is often the only part of a magazine that someone can see because they are all stacked one behind the other) and then enough information to make them want to read more, but not too much that the page looks overcrowded. Also, I think that the photo looks real (natural) which is great because I don't want it to look like it's obvious that it's staged because then it would look like the magazine editors hadn't put any effort into taking the picture. I'm also very pleased that the mise-en-scene fits in very well with the sixth former, and provides a good background for text since it isn't very busy. I used a mix of upper case only, and upper and lower case phases on my front cover to give it a bit of variety, I didn't want it to look like I had stuck with the same type of text for the whole of the front cover.
I believe that I could have managed my time for this project much better since I didn't finish planning the magazine or properly consulting my target audience before I actually had to start creating the actual front cover however saying this the few people that I did speak to felt that my magazine has a good basic genre, everything, so if they don't like one section they might still find some other sections of the magazine interesting.
In hindsight I should have got focused quicker when I was doing the magazine plan and target audience, I spent way too much time reviewing and annotating other typical magazine covers considering it was worth a low amount of marks compared to the front cover. I do not believe that this had a major negative impact on my front cover though, which I spent a good amount of time on also since it is worth the most marks in the task.
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