Evaluation Posted by Jordan Harrison , Wednesday, 21 October 2009 at 18:01, in

Evaluation:

My main task was to create a college magazine front cover, along side drafting a contents page. For this I knew I would need to do research for my project, research based upon conventions of a front cover, convents of a contents page. I would also needs to research and deconstruct exciting magazines, college and other genres too. I also produced two mood boards, the first consisting of magazines I think students, or the target audience would read, I also produced one based upon items which I believe are desirable to the target audience.

For my magazine, I designed to design it for my college, “Wyke”. The colour theme for Wyke’s logo etc is Purple on Green, the negatives of each other. I also used the usual conventions for my cover such as a masthead, cover line, cover image, main article. I discovered the conventions through my research. I compared college magazines, and compared commercial magazines to college magazines to see the conflicting attributes.

For my work I created a Blog to present it, this also made it easy for me to work on my project from home, and anywhere in the college. On this I uploaded all of my work, my research and my plans. I also had to think of what to use in the components on my magazine, such as the magazine masthead. I could imitate Vogue’s masthead, but I have to think of the content within the masthead. I came up with a few cover stories and headlines, so I had a variety of ideas for my final piece.

I believe my magazine has many strengths personally, mostly as it fits in with the style and colour scheme of the college. When I asked for peoples opinions, the feedback I received were that it was very professional looking, natural and bold. Well constructed and designed. I received very positive feedback towards my magazine.

I was also told that my magazine would be well suited to the audience I was aiming it at. This was very pleasing since the people I was asking for feedback was my target audience, they said they would happily read it and it strongly appeals to them.

When I was designing my front cover, the layout came from an old hand rendered draft. I didn’t see many designs with a side masthead, but I liked the idea. I worked upon this design to finalise it, adding the font “Arial” from my research into typography, and also my colour scheme that has previously been mentioned.

This magazine needs to be representational of college, students etc. I believe that is you was a student of wyke college, you would find the magazine very representational of the college. This magazine needs to show it’s a college magazine, this can be shown through the masthead subheading “College magazine”.

Finally I brought together all my work. I did not add a barcode, as I didn’t have a price since the magazine is not for sale, its for distribution throughout the college. All my work was finally uploaded and displayed on my Blog, I redesigned my blog with a new layout, as I take pride in my work and I want it to not only look good, but the content to be to the same standard.
As an extra piece, I decided to produce an actual contents page, instead of just draft. The contents page has page numbers in numeric orders, it fits with the magazine cover and the colour scheme. The contents page also fits with the conventions of a contents page, and the feedback again was positive.

I took inspiration from everyday desirable objects, alongside with today’s magazines, and I believe this benefited me massively.

Final Magazine Cover Posted by Jordan Harrison , at 18:00, in

Final Magazine Cover:

This is my final magazine cover. I had a few problems along the way, but I believe I have produces a solid, well made cover. The aim is to attract the right audience, relate to the subject, inform and entertain. I used stuck to the colours from the Wyke logo as the colour scheme for my project, it works well, its bold and it connects with the college.

The above image is my final cover, but the below image was going to be my final design, before I realised it didn't work with the brief. According to the brief all photographs must be original, the below image has photos of an iPod and a picture of the wyke website. These where not original images by me, so I had to change them to something that was still symbolic to the article, but my original images.

I think the above cover did work, but over all I am pleased with my outcome. I believe the images I produced to stick to the brief look better, and are more fitting to the magazine.

The above image is my final IT draft of my magazine, as you can see I kept with the layout, placement and content. Along with the colour scheme etc.

Final Contents Page and Draft Posted by Jordan Harrison , at 18:00, in

Contents Page:

This is the contents page for my Magazine, As you can see, it follows the theme of my magazine cover, and all my Drafts.


I used the same colour theme as the wyke logo and my magazine cover. It follows the convents of a contents page, having featured articles, and a numerical ordered list of pages from the magazine.

Contents Page Final IT Draft:

This is a final draft of my Contents page, before I produce it.

As you can see, the colour theme has been the same throughout and I kept the same layout.

Unused Photograph Posted by Jordan Harrison , Tuesday, 20 October 2009 at 12:03, in

This is the only Photograph that hasn't been used on my magazine cover:

This is 1 of 2 photographs I took. Personally I don't think that this photograph was as strong, nor did it work as well as the other photograph.

Both of my photographs were Medium Close-Up, and both were not blurred. The only reason I decided to not use this photograph was because it didn't fit the magazine as well as the other photograph, which can be seen in my final magazine cover post.

Redefined IT Drafts Posted by Jordan Harrison , at 12:02, in

IT Draft 1: This is a draft of my original IT draft, in colour with more information.


IT Draft 2: This is a draft of my original IT draft, in colour with more information.


IT Draft 3: This is a draft of my original IT draft, in colour with more information.

IT Drafts Redefined:
I think i like the look IT draft 3 the most, Now I am going to further work upon it to produce my final product, putting into account all past work and research.

Magazine Photographs Posted by Jordan Harrison , at 12:02, in

Here are the two photographs I took for my Magazine:



Both of these photographs depict a girl holding a large book/folder, this is because I wanted something to fit with the Headline. Both of the Photographs are Medium Close-Ups, and I will be using one of them for my magazine cover.

Magazine Strories Posted by Jordan Harrison , at 12:02, in

Masthead:
WYKE College

Main Story:
Too Much To Handle!
"Do students have too much to carry? Even if they have a locker?"

Other articles:
Local Events/music
Compitions
New Student Handbooks
Website redesign