Evaluation of college magazine

 

The image on the front cover is a medium close-up of a student. It relates to the cover lines. The girl on the image is college student.
She is happy and smiling, which suggests successes that she is happy with the college, and therefore draws the attention of the college audience to the magazine.The image was taken, at the gyms reception, this relates to the cover line.

Layout:
The model does not cover up the masthead, so that it is all visible, this could suggest that the magazine isn’t that famous so it can’t afford to have its brand name covered up. After the masthead, the cover lines are the biggest fonts.

 

The right side has the features and the cover story, text boxes. The colour scheme is a dark blue, black, red and white. The simple colour scheme is very effective in contents page, as the dark blue and black stands out from the white background.  However there could have been more images and the colours could have matched more with the actual college logo, to make it look more inviting.

What do I need to improve on?

·         Front cover -> Is quite plain there is only one cover line, that does relate to the image, but isn’t that obvious, so more cover lines and a main cover lines that pops out would work really well.  

·         Colour Scheme -> I need a colour scheme that is both exciting and relevant to the genre or content of the magazine. The main problem is that the colour scheme does not go with the front cover.

·         Contents: the codes and conventions of this contents page is not normally how a contents page is. There aren’t any page numbers for the readers to look at so they would have to look through all pages even if they didn’t want to, also could the contents page have a different image to make it look more appealing.