Audience Feedback Evaluation for Preliminary Task

When I made a plan for my College Magazine  I set out the layout for the page and title of the magazine, this same layout and title was used for my final copy of the college magazine.

To create the front cover I used photoshop. I took the image that is used for the background of the magazine, I chose to take it in front of a plane background as it would be easier for the cover lines to be seen. I like the image that I used as it does show someone with the right features to be a student. She looks studious and responsible as a she is holding some books and folders and this works well with the college genre of the magazine, she is also smiling and this shows that she is perhaps happy and confident to be in college. I think that the image could be improved by taking it in natural lighting as it would brighten the front cover. A College magazine should reflect positivity and the great atmosphere of the college, a bright cover would show this. If i wasn't able to take the picture in natural lighting than i could have changed the brightness of the image on photoshop by increasing the contrast, this would have also improved the quality of the front cover.

The Mast Head that I used stands out as it has a white background highlighting the text, the colour of the actual text is a dark navy blue colour. 'LSC Weekly' is in bold letters so this stands out even more apart from having a highlighted background to it. When placing the mast head on the cover it was on top of the cover star. On photoshop I used the eraser tool to take away the part of the mast head that was on top of the cover start, by doing this the front cover looked much more professional. To make sure I erased the masthead accurately i reduced the opacity of the masthead so i was able too see the picture underneath, once I finished erasing this I reverted the opacity. The colour of the text i chose was navy blue because it matched the colour of the clothes worn by the cover star. Despite this i feel like i could have improved the colour chosen because when looking at the finished magazine the dark colour makes the front colour look even more and the colour connotes something being low spirited and glum which contradicts the genre of the magazine.

For the colour schemes i chose to use white and two different tones of blue . The white allows for some of the text such as the puff and the mast head to stand out against the background. The brighter blue is my favourite colour used on the front cover as it is bold and a cheerful cover and it helps the entire cover stand out.
 "The front cover has bold colours on it which make is stand out"

"The front cover has a goof layout, blank spaces need to be filled in"
I agree with the comment above ad I like the layout of the magazine because it looks like an actual existing magazine. One thing that compliment this is by adding more text to the front cover. There are still empty spaces that could be filled with text. The existing cover lines could be extended by adding short description underneath it.


As for the contents page i used Indesign to be able to produce it. The production of the contents page was a lot quicker compared to the front cover. It was a lot easier to place everything in its place. Because there aren't that many element on the magazine there isn't that many thing to talk about.

 One of the things that i like about my magazine is the appearance because it looks very well organised. I made sure to align the the text on the left side and the images on the right side so that the page looked very well done.
The colour scheme for this page doesn't follow the same as the front cover, apart from the navy blue colour. A point of improvement could be that if i was to follow the same colour scheme both pages could match more. Furthermore i think that my contents page needs some more colour as the plain background makes the page look a little bit dull. By adding brighter colours the magazine would be able to be linked to its genre.

In the contents page the subheadings is highlighted with a different colour and the text underneath is a short explanation for each subheading. This seems to be essential in every magazine as it helps for the reader to be directed through the magazine.

"Lacks page umbers that will direct readers"
In regard to this comments a change that i could make to the magazine is to change the size of the page numbers because they are included. I made sure to add the page numbers before which could be confusing to the reader as it is not seen clear therefore this is a big point for improvement