These pictures show the front cover and contents page of the Goffs school magazine I was asked to make for the preliminary task. I used Adobe PhotoShop and Corel PaintShop to produce this. This is my evaluation of the final product.
Good points about my preliminary task front cover include, the purple and green colour scheme which is continued on the contents page, I like the contrast between the artificial purple and fluorescent green with the dull earthy tones of the brickwork and main photo. I am also pleased with how the eyes seem to pop out of the picture catching the readers attention. The slanted angle that everything has been placed appeals to the younger target market and makes it more quirky rather than boring and linear like a newspaper.
However, there are a few bad aspects of my cover that I would change if I done it again. For example, I think that I have used too many fonts on the front page and next time I should limit myself for one or two. Also, I think that to attract the readers attention I need more photos and stories, without them the page looks too empty. This is helped a little by the brickwork background making the page look more busy but looking at it you can see the page is bare and quite bland. Also, several features have been left off this cover which would help make it look more like a magazine, for example a banner at the top and/or bottom with further details of what's inside and a bar code or price should also be added. Finally, if I were to do this again I would have to design a logo for my magazine. Without all these features I feel that my cover ended up looking more like a poster rather than a magazine front page.
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As you can see the purple, green and black colour scheme have been continued from the front page onto here keeping in consistency with the house style. Again I have chosen a background which is a dull colour in comparison with the text to make it stand out. However, because on this page there is a lot more writing than the cover, nothing really seems to pop out at the reader when they turn the page. I think to resolve this problem I could have made the word 'Contents' either a different colour to the rest or give it a different colour border to the rest. On this page I have used only two fonts which looks better than having lots of different typefaces which looks unprofessional and disorganised. These fonts are the same ones I used on the front cover which is another one of the few things linking this page with the first. The photo I have used on this page is very similar but slightly different to the photo on the front page. I avoided having exactly the same photo because it can get boring however I think if I done a task like this again I would use two pictures with more of an obvious difference. On the subject of photos, I again think that there should be more pictures used on this page to fill up any blank spaces and give the reader more of an idea of what's inside. Without a lot of photos my contents looks empty and despite the writing, it gives the reader the impression that there is nothing interesting inside and also with some photos I should put captions underneath so the reader knows which story they correspond to. Finally I have topped the page with a banner containing contact details and the name of the magazine which will help the reader feel that the magazine is interested in what they think.
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