College Cover&Contents Analysis

This is the contents page of a college magazine. We can see that there are 6 main sections that may apply to almost every student that reads this. The sub headers of each section are the same colour as the girl's dress who features on the front cover and in the image in the contents page. So as we can see, there is a particular colour scheme throughout. The colour scheme which is used for te front cover still remains the same for the contents page. It contains formal language the same fonts as on the front cover. The way that the contents is set out is neat and not all over the place. The layout is pretty simple. The model on the front cover appears on the contents page, so this lets us know that there is a story linked to her within the magazine.  

- The masthead is at the top of the magazine in bold red font reading 'COLLEGE' 

- The main colour scheme of this is red and black

- The main cover line is 'NYC's freshman fashion ceo' but its hard to identify this as it is not symbollically bigger than the other texts on the magazine 

- The main image is in the centre of the page, the model is of a student who is smiling which shows an enthusiastic and positive attitude towards the college

- The barcode is in the bottom left hand side of the magazine and on the side of the barcode it says '100%' free which may encourage students to pick up a magazine

- In the right corner just under the masthead, the date and issue is visible

- There are only 3 types of fonts being used

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Evaluation

Evaluation

Research- Research was the main body of this task as it allowed me to gain a clear understanding of how i should design my magazine. As i researched into more depth , i gathered a clear idea of the layout and what colour schemes would look sophisticated. I struggled with finding extra information to include in the magazine. I really struggled with finding quotes from celebrities displaying their views on music piracy.

Journalistic&Writing Skills- Due to me taking English combined as an A-level, I found this section quite simple to do. During this task, my strength was writing the journalistic piece whereas I found it hard to structure the piece as I wanted it to sound sophisticated.

The Indesign Skills-Indesign was quite a challenging piece of software to control but I soon got my head around it. It was pretty simple inserting images and text boxes but when it came to filling the backgrounds and changing the colours, I was unable to, so i stuck to dark and light grey tones but this had a perk as it made my DPS look rather sophisticated.

Web Publishing Skills- I had no luck in this area of work as I have no idea how to work blogger so I haven't uploaded a great deal of work to the site yet. I am finding blogger very challenging as I have never used a site like or similar to this and have had no guidance with it.

4 Targets I Have Set Myself:

• Do extra research before hand so it's easier in the long run to piece together my work and analysis
• Use Indesign regularly so I can get the jist of how to control it so I wont struggle in future and I wont waste time trying to find what buttons to press
• Use blogger more regular so I am able to blog more work and recieve extra feedback
• To research extra sources to back up my claims and make my reasons for why i have written what i have stronger