College Magazine Evaluation

AS Media College Magazine Evaluation

My college magazine conforms to all of the typical conventions of a magazine as the image is medium close up and the top of the image covers the masthead to draw attention to the image. Also, the whole of the cover page uses no more than four or 5 colours and has the text concerning information on what’s in the magazine on the left hand side. The text itself is small but bold so it’s noticeable, whereas the masthead is a large font to show that’s the name of the magazine, there’s also a bar code, price and date.

The contents page too matches the conventions of a typical contents page as it has several images, but a large image to emphasise the main story within the magazine. It’s also separated into columns, so that it’s easier to read and find the page you’re looking to read. The background is white which is typical of a contents page and it says contents in bold writing at the top of the page. Just as the cover page, it has the date, name of the magazine and uses no more than a few colours, in this instance white, blue and black.

Young people are represented in a positive way as the cover story praises the hard work of a student that has been rewarded by winning a competition, which doesn’t fit the stereotype of teenagers that are represented in the media usually.

Overall, I’ve learnt how to use Photoshop to produce my cover page and tools within the program as well as Quark to produce my contents page. I also got a grip of the tools within the program such as crop, refine layer and editing the fonts, sizes and boldness of text.