Evaluation off school magazine front cover

Evaluation off school magazine front cover

Mast head

The mast head I chose for my school magazine was ‘KHS’ I chose this because it was the one that had most vote in my questionnaire, I think this an appropriate mast head as it is the abbreviation of the schools name and most pupils call the school by this name making it a popular and appropriate name for the school mag. When choosing a colour scheme for my magazine the most popular colours where navy and gold so when deciding the colour for my mast head I went with yellow/ gold for the writing with a thin black line running round the outside making it stand out. The mast head is positioned in the top left hand side of the page and takes up a good quarter of the page.

Image

When deciding the front covers main image I took in to account lots of factors such as who the magazine was aimed at, what aspects off school life it was going to focus on etc. Eventually I decide to use the picture I had taken of the upper school building with the new lift and windows shown in. I chose this image because it represents the school as a bright cheerful place with the blue sky in the back ground.  As my magazine is a sixth form magazine the image of the upper school building is appropriate as this is what is associated with the sixth form.

 My magazine has two subsidiary images these are a two shot close up of two rugby players and a long shot of the canteen. I think that the two subsidiary images are an appropriate size as they only take up a small amount of the page yet they are easy to see and understand. I decided to place the two subsidiary images on the bottom left hand side of the page as this seemed the best place to put them as there was only grass in the background which wasn’t important to the picture. Both subsidiary images give a clear indication on the story they are trying to tell, the two boys are both wearing rugby jerseys indicate that they play rugby and the story is going to be sport based. And the other picture of the canteen tells us about the new café etc.

Language

Strap lines and sell lines have been used on the front cover all together I used 5 of them spreading them out all over the cover drawing in readers. The strap lines do give a clear indication on the content of the magazine they are simple and bold giving the reader knowledge of the content. I have used a few puns and alliteration in my sell lines such as ‘Sporting Success’. Looking back over my magazine I have miss spelt two words ‘success’ and ‘canteen’.

When making the magazine I made sure I used lots of different fronts and font sizes varying it for different stories and sell lines. For the colour of the sell lines I decided to stick with the black and gold varying it to create the schools colours, I think this worked well as in the background you can see the yellow and black on the school sign.

Layout and design   

The layout of my page is very simple everything is kept to the left hand side of the page primarily because that is where the space is. When taking the picture I deliberately took the photo leaving the space so that I could fit the info/ pics in.  I think that my front cover is quite appealing to the reader out of 10 I would rate it around 7, mainly because of the sell line ‘Saved by the bell’ I think made this a little big and chose the wrong colour. If I were to do it again I would make the line smaller and change it to gold colour so that more focus would be on the mast head.   

Strengths

Three aspects that I feel are good on front cover are:

·        Main image – of school

·        Having a header and footer giving extra information

·        Layout – simple and easy to follow

Targets for improvement

Three aspects that I feel need to be improved are:

·        Main sell line – ‘ saved by the bell’

·        Reposition the mast head so everything is in line

·        Another subsidiary image