Evaluation- Preliminary Task

Evaluation Preliminary task:

Conventions are the basic rules that the magazine have to follow to make the magazine recognisable for example having the masthead at the top of the front page would be a convention. Therefore I think my magazine follows the typical conventions of the magazine as it has a basic layout of the masthead at the top of the page and the cover lines around it, but also the written information text is a developing another convention of the information boxes to be around the cover lines.

In general I was original and only used the blue and yellow colour for text as I wanted to attract the audience through this as some people might know the school colours so even if they only glimpsed the magazine they could think it’s about this school and go pick it up, this would make the magazine eye catching. Also the front cover image is applying to the school life as the model is reading a book, showing that education is good at the certain school used. I used Standard English, no slang used at all to show sophistication in the magazine. The fact that the model on the front page is wearing a shirt and tie, which informs the audience he is taking the student life seriously, looks smart to show his personality towards studying. The masthead is in a large sized font to catch the audience’s eye. The importance of choosing the right font for your magazine is massive as different fonts represent different things and target different audiences. For example my font is a typical Calibri font which targets mature adults that are around in their 40’s and their children attend this school.

When constructing theses pages I have learnt how to use Photoshop which was very confusing at first but after a few lessons I got the hang of it but still not completely as there are a lot of different tools that I didn’t have to use that I could in the future e.g. magnetic lasso and elliptical marquee

Overall in my opinion I think that my magazine is strong in design. This is because the layout is a typical magazine layout but it has slight original twist to it also the main image is very strong conveys a strong message to the audience also in my contents page the photography is strong as it shows the other students talents and the school main talented areas.