Preliminary Evaluation

1) In my student magazine I have demonstrated how I have used professional magazine products to help me construct a student through researching the different types of fonts and colours which help attract the reader into the magazine which helped me through finding fonts and colours that were simple but effect and continued to use the scheme of 2 colours in my magazine. Furthermore I researched the look of how the magazine is displayed with one image. However because my magazine is targeted at students I reflected how the use of one image looks doesn’t portray the target audience or the genre but with the use of more than one person in the picture it is more appealing and fun to the reader which I have adjusted in my magazine and through the use of layout in my contents page by making the title look fragmented.

2) The Magazine is aimed at teenagers that are aged at 16-18. For the magazine there no initial gender for the target audience because the magazine is aimed all students with no particular colour or style concluding that if the magazine Is aimed at all genders that it will become more popular and it will attract more students. They magazine itself differs from other magazine because •Cover lines – They are aimed at students that are intrigued into those hobbies and activities •Central Image- illustrates the students in the magazine sitting down around college gossiping and talking•Tagline – ‘the spread of education and Gossip’ allows the reader to grasp the idea of whom and what the magazine is for.

3) For a student magazine because aimed for college students; it should be sold in the college because it allows the magazine to reach out all the students. To attract the audience they should be displayed in the library where they can be seen by the students at the front desk and also at the reception where they be viewed by the students. Furthermore because the magazine comes out monthly poster should be submitted to allow the audience remember when the magazine is debuting and where they can receive one.

4) The magazine is targeted at college students that are 16-18; the use of not only using one model in the central image and conversely using 3 models allows the audience to identify with the models because that is regular occasion to speak to friends and gossip around college making the reader feel familiar with the magazine with the usefulness of a blackberry contrast with the books to show that are interacting socially with use of education representing the college.

5) The designs for my target audience which are college students are shown through my magazine for example: •Masthead – Simple but effective because the spread symbolizes the‘spread of education and gossip’ which is demonstrated in tagline. Also with the asterix it illustrates the magazines as logo and statement of what the magazine truly represents. •The Cover lines – Connect to the magazine because they are educational but reflect social aspects which attract students but it also informs the reader on the genre of the magazine. •Fonts – The colours that are incorporated into my magazine are just blue and white because it blends in with the main image and they stands out with the use of stroke. The colours have illustrated in an organised fashion to represent the use of each colour and make the magazine look sophisticated. •The Main Image- The Image represents my magazine because shows a group of young college students that are interacting with each other and are just discussing work and gossip which presented through the mise en scene of the them sitting on a bench and them having the props of the books and the phone.

6) The software that I used in the construction of my Student Magazine is Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. Whilst editing my photo on Photoshop it quite difficult in the beginning to get understand the software but in the duration of using the software it became easier and there were no limitations or problems but using the InDesign it was more difficult because less familiar with the software and I was hard to use the baseline grid and document grid.

7) When editing my photo in Photoshop I improved the picture by making it brighter and look I cropped out some people in the picture to create the focus on only 3 models. Also in relation to constructing my main image with the use of Photoshop I could anchor my masthead head to rest on the house which was in the background. However in making the contents page the difficulty lies in using the grids to anchor the text and the pictures.