Positives of my work:
My house style is very consistent and the masthead is very bold with a effective gradient effect that includes all the 3 colours i used : black,white and green. The issuing is clear and the cover lines are distinct from the main cover line. Image manipulation is good and has been cut out from the main image to be put in front on the background on the front cover. My cover lines are relevant to the target audience of college students as they relate to the experiences people of that age would go through. Also, Photoshop use was quite simple as I have had experience with it in the past and am quite familiar with the software. The emphasis of "only" 50p makes the magazine cheaper than it seems which draws audiences in.
The contents page has a good vertical structure with text on the right and images on the left. The images reflect college life and some of what is to appear in the magazine which i think is always important. I have emphasised the page numbers in importance of articles ; e.g biggest font of page number for main cover story . The layout is also good and the colour scheming gives it a professional look. The house style has carried on from the front cover with similar colours. A clever addition on my part is the monochrome effect on the images which connote that this is only a glimpse and further on the article all will be revealed with actual colour images accompanied with reading material/content.
Critique and things i can improve on:
- on the contents page the gradient effect doesn't make the text at the bottom stand out as much as it should and isn't clear at first glance.
-I have missed out a bar-code but will definitely implement one in the actual music magazine as this particular college magazine wouldn't retail anywhere else apart from the college so I thought a bar-code wasn't necessary.
-I didn't make the actual headers of each article in the content bold which definitely needs to be overlooked in the final magazine.
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