College Magazine Front Cover

I was told that I had to create a front cover and contents page for a college magazine before I created my Music Magazine. This was so that I had some practise using photoshop and know what to do. After creating this, I have also decided that instead of using a font for my title on my magazine, I create my own as this will be fun, better looking for the magazine and I will feel like I have made a greater accomplishment.

Picture Flat-plan Presentation

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Blog Review

Notes From fellow Colleagues

               

                In the class, We split up into multiple groups to view each others Blogs, telling each other their blogs Strengths and weaknesses.  I received three reviews and I will discuss them now.

What do you like about it:

·         The use of slide-share: It is a different style of getting you information to the audience

·         The analysis of Existing products is very detailed and gives the blog reader a clear view of why things have been done in a specific way

·         Detailed every item of work  really well

·         Breaking up blocks of text

·         Good use of language and terms

What would you improve:

·         Should upload more images to make the blog more appealing

·         More posts and the results of your survey

·         Write nicer blog posts about no-one completing survey, it comes across as arrogant and negative

·         Include a ‘My ideal reader’ and add some sample photographs of what the reader would look like

·         Make the blog look the same as the magazine using the same colour scheme and fonts

What is the most interesting thing about it:

·         The layout is interesting and neatly organised

·         The use of a forum to find information for the conducted survey

·         The name of the magazine being able to be abbreviated would easily fit with any target audience

·         Expanding research to beyond friend groups

                So which of these should I work on and improve? Unlike the flat-plan, pitch and style sheet, I will work on almost all of these. I do believe that some of my posts are lacking visual graphics so I will upload a few pictures that match the text. I have posted the results of my survey so the 2^nd one is already done, this was probably included as I probably had not posted my survey results up at the time. I do admit, one of my posts is slightly arrogant and negative but I am not sure whether to change it as that is how I felt at the time of the post as I don’t like changing my past opinions but I might come across as less arrogant if I do change this. I will Have to decide on this. I also have included a My ideal reader post but it needs appropriate pictures. The last Improvement to make the blog match the magazine with the colours and fonts is in my opinion, something that NEEDS to be DONE. I would like a cloudy theme as this uses light blues and whites (Sky and Clouds) and would match the colour scheme for the magazine.

Flat-Plan, Pitch and Style Sheet Review

Notes From fellow Colleagues

                In the class, We split up into multiple groups to view each others pitches, Style Sheets and Flat-plans.  I received three reviews and I will discuss them now.

What People Liked:

·         Written text on Flat-plans to show what items will be where on the magazine

·         The Niche market as there are no magazines on the specific genre

·         Name Of The magazine

What People would change:

·         Pick a font for the front Cover that is easy to read

·         Add colour to the flat-plans

·         The colours used on the fonts and titles

·         Spacing between the article text on the Double-Page-Spread

What People found most interesting:

·         The creativity of the Front Covers

·         The main Image holding onto aspects of them magazine

·         The backgrounds of Pictures being Edited and Non-edited

·         The Name of the magazine is so Cool

                So which do I work on and which do I ignore? Well, I am actually going to ignore quite a lot of what people would change because The flat-plans look good so no need for cover and this will also show a drastic difference between the flat-plans and the finished product, I believe that I did pick a font which was easy to read for the front cover, If other people cant read it then I will change this obviously to a different font. The colours on the fonts and titles are that which match the genre so these will not change But what i will take into account would probably be the spacing between the texts on my D.P.S as three small columns for the main article would most likely look better if split into two Columns and This removes some of the small spacing between the texts while still allowing the same amount of content input.

                Reacting to what people found the most interesting and what they liked,  they Loved the plans for the images and how these will merge with the magazine titles, The name of the magazine and how the genre is new for a magazine and the fact that it has never been attempted before. Overall, I got a lot of really positive feedback and this has increased my aspirations for this magazine and hopefully, this will fuel my ambition to create this to the highest degree of perfection as human nature allows.

Survey Results

Survey results

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Flat-plans: Front Cover Ideas

These are my different idea designs for the front cover. With the 'Trio' Cover, The picture would be good and the main man holding the pull quote would be genius the picture as a whole might not leave enough room for the text.

The 'man with his arms in the air' front cover would look nice but the problem with that one is that it doesn't follow the normal design of a magazine front cover and this could prove both advantageous and disadvantageous. The 'man looking forward' cover Does suite the most with its layout for text and everything but the problem is that the image might seem a bit dull.

My main idea is to perhaps merge these ideas together for my front cover. I would use the idea of holding the pull quote, merge this with the layout of the 'Forward looking' cover while giving all this a unique look like that but not the same as 'man with his arms in the air' cover. I will try to make an image which would merge all the apects together with enought room for the text and good looks.

 

Flat-plans: D.P.S and Contents page