Preliminary Task (Front Cover)

 

For my preliminary task I had to design a college magazine. I am going to write my evaluation of my magazine front cover.My front cover does have some good and some bad points to it.

The good points to my magazine front cover can be that you could actually tell it is a magazine designed for a college, you can tell this by the name as well as the logo which are both situated at the top of the magazine. There isn't an over crowding on the front cover and also there isn't a lot to read especially if it is for this type of audience which is teenagers.If they see a lot of writing they would no doubt turn their heads and will not look back unless a specific teenager doesn't mind reading but i want it to hook a wide range of teenagers so a lot of writing isn't the way to go. So that is why i never overcrowded it, Because of course the front cover is the first thing you see. 

The good points of my magazine front cover is that there isn't too many colours going on, I have focused on just two colours, whcich are purple and blue. I choose these colours because they match the schools logo,so there is a colours scheme. Another good point about this is that there is a picture of a girl
on the computer which is relevant because this school  specialises in Media Arts, I had to resize this picture so it will fit on the the front cover, But if i stretched it to cover the page the picture would have looked distort and would looked blurred. Thats why i done it in a way that does not make the picture look distort so I compramised and never made the picture cover all of the page, And so in the white space above i put the name of the school there. The masthead of my magazine is bold and eye catching and you know what the magazine is going to be about.
The bad points of my magazine front cover is that i have a kicker on my front cover which is saying ' specialises in media arts' but the down side to this is that it isn't a noticeable kicker as you can tell, the writing does not go all the way across the page and it does not have a box around like all kickers have. Also I have included straplines but there is quite a bit of writing on there which would bore the reader. Straplines are meant to have limited amount of writing and my straplines hasn't. On my front cover there is a barcode which is situated in the bottom right-hand corner, but to be hinest there is no point of having a barcode because it is not as if the pupils are going to buy it, they just have to pick it up. The reason i did do a barcode was because I thought it would look more professional and more like a magazine. One more bad point is that i should have mentioned the face that the high school part is all girls and that the sixth form is mixed sex, because some people would think that the sixth form also is just all girls.