College News - Evaluation | Joshua Foo

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Media Evaluation

Initially I use four different magazine companies and analysed there rot covers and

discussed the styles and appearances. This was my main research so I could grasp a better

idea and concept for my magazine. My front cover includes a masthead, barcode and other

qualities you would expect for a standard magazine cover. I have the main illustration in the

background of a college student revising. The photograph is well light and has allowed me to

print legible writing over top.

My media product represents the college society and targets young people. I have shown

this by making the title relevant “College News!” it immediately shouts out to students by

incorporating the word college. I have labelled it with a price that a student would expect to

pay for such media. The annotations on the front cover also suggest it is being focused on

students “A* Guaranteed” this is advertising and appealing for students. I would expect a

college or library to be the media institution that would distribute this media product. The

colour scheme is primarily based round the colours white, red, black and yellow, all stand

out and are fairly vibrant. This was fluent throughout my media product to create

consistency.

The contents page also follows the colour scheme as you would expect from a magazine. It

contains a large appealing title with a simple style that is fairly old school but still in date

acceptable. Again I researched four different magazines to obtain information and

inspiration for creating my contents page. I decided to have to simple illustrations that

represent different areas of the contents that back up the vocabulary printed. I kept it

simple, clean and professional. I feel this look worked well as it is easy to understand and

gives you everything you would want from a contents page.

I used Photoshop to carry out media product, rather than using different software such as

word because I know how to use it and I thought it would give me a more creative

advantage. Another reason is I didn’t want my magazine to be in a grid format, rather a flow

product such as one you would find on the shelf, Photoshop allowed me to do this and give

me that freedom. I learnt a lot of different techniques that I will be carrying out in my future

projects.

There are a lot of things I liked about my media product and feel I succeeded in pursuing my

target audience and in creating a fairly realistic college magazine. I also felt I achieved a

reasonable amount of artist research that helped me achieve my final product; I will be

doing this again next time. However there are a few things I will do to improve on for next

time, such as spending more time experimenting with different ideas to maximise

professionalism and realism. I will also be taking all my own illustrations and creating the

logos. All in all I feel it was a successful project that looks good and appeals to the right

audience. I will take on what I have learnt and will be improving for next project.