Evaluation

For the preliminary exercise i have been asked to create a college magazine front cover and contents page. We had to come up with a name for the magazine, take a medium close-up of a student for the front cover as well as take other pictures to either add on the front cover or put on the contents page.

Overall, i am happy with my front cover, it's looks professional and i have included everything which i was supposed to include. I used a masthead at the top as well as sub-headings placed appropriately around the main picture, and  used the college's logo. Also, throughout the texts on the front cover and contents page i have stuck with the college colours, of purple and green. I came up with the name 'Wyke Nation' because i didnt want something boring like 'Wyke College Magazine', also Wyke Nation sounds catchy and fun, something that would stand out to students.

To create my front cover i used photoshop, then to create my contents page i used publisher. I took many photo's for the magazine but have only ended up using four of them, the main image in the front cover and three smaller images on the contents page. The only problems i had with the photo's is that the main image i wanted to use, the girl had red-eyes on it so i had to edit them, which took quite a bit of time to make them look natural.

Im not quite sure what sort of grade i'll get for my magazine, im hoping at least a C. I'm proud of it, but i honestly think i could of put more imagination, time and effort into it.