Jack Kearton Waters Media Studies blog: October 2012

Evaluation (Preliminary Task)

I chose the name College Weekly because it comes out every week. I chose blue for my text because blue connotes cool which implies that this magazine is cool which is a message I want to give the reader which would help persuade them to buy the magazine.

I chose to use the image as my background because it shows part of the college so that it helps the title establish that it is a college magazine. The background is a college corridor which is the first place you encounter when you walk into college and is a communal space within the college. I included the barcode because it is a convention of a magazine because the barcode is what is scanned to determine the price in the shop.

Issue number and price are listed near the masthead because this is what you would see if you could only see the top of a magazine due to how they are shelved in shops. The issue number lets you know how many times the magazine has been issued but not all magazines have an issue number on the front. The price is so that if somebody wanted to buy this magazine they would know how much it costs which helps determine if people buy magazines.

I chose blue for my text colour because blue connotes cool and calm because at college you can be cool and calm this is also what some of the articles can help with such as organisation tips. Also it stands out well from the background which makes it look important.

I chose to feature a letter from the principal because he is important but he is welcoming new students to the college which makes them feel more settled. This helps progress because if someone is settled then they can put all their effort into their work.

My masthead dominates the top of the page because of the way that magazines are organized in shops to be sold so the masthead is very important and needs to be bigger than any of the other text on the cover of the magazine. The image shows that there is a lot behind the model meaning that they are achieving highly and have things behind them they have not been overtaken by a heavy work load.

If I could repeat this task then I would take the images earlier and think of more interesting articles to include on the front cover, I would also have made my masthead a different colour to make it stand out further from the articles. If I did this then I would have been able to get more time to tweak my cover on Photoshop which would have made it better and I would then have more time to complete other areas of this task which would have been easier than the cover but because I didn't have a clear idea in my head of how I wanted it to look it took more time than it should of.