Evaluation

My front cover of a college magazine turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. I started by setting up a blog, which I found easy to use and very helpful for the project.
I then started looking for current or past magazine covers which I could analyse and get ideas from for my own. I looked at American and English magazines, which I found very different to each other in layout and headlines. I decided to use quoted from students for my own magazine such as advertising the help at college and the support you are able to get but mostly the environment you are learning in. I did this to attract to the target audience which was 16-18yr olds. I also wanted to use logos used by the college as I felt these would be helpful to make sure it looked professional.
I made some changes when I was making the front cover. One of these was the setting for the picture and how I took it. I was originally going to use the Wilson Building as a background but I chose the Ash building instead as it wasn’t as bold and it gave a nicer background to the picture. I also chose to have 2 people in the picture as I thought this gave the reader and the target audience a feeling of being relaxed and content when they are at college.
In my blogger I included a mood board, the drafts I had made, contents draft and magazine analysis. All of these things show the work I had done to prepare for my final front cover. I was able to scan in my hand drawn draft which I put onto my blog and this enable me to show my original idea.
I used LIIAR to analyse my other magazine covers and also to think of a good idea for my own magazine following the steps of LIIAR.

I am very happy with my end result and I have enjoyed working on it and using the blogs to store my work and also add new ideas I have come up with on the way. I hope when people look at this cover they will get the idea I am trying to put across to the audience.