Evaluation on preliminary magazine

Evaluation

When I created my product I did some research into school magazines so I had a good idea of what they include. For example I looked at a magazine called Fusion and looked at the language used for example they used: Rhetorical questions, short sentences and colloquial language. I then looked at the graphology used and Fusion used a big bold image of a young person in the background so I decided to use a distinct image in my background as it works well for a school magazine. Also I used a big bold heading or my title as Fusion did as it makes it stand out more. Also I noticed every school magazine had smaller size font for there sub titles and extra information so I applied this technique in my magazine to make it look more professional.

My school magazine appeals to both genders as the main focus on the front cover is a male student behind art work. Stereotypically girls would appeal to more creative like magazines including art and textiles for example yet because my main image is of a male I think this exaggerates the fact that both female and males are creative.

If my magazine were to be published a smaller institution would distribute my product as my product is aimed for a specific target audience only which is students. Also the magazine would only be sold in high schools as a younger demographic may not understand some of the vocabulary used. A smaller institution would distribute my product because they have less money to spend in comparison with the larger institutions so they would be more interested in my product than bigger institutions.

My magazine is specifically aimed for students within the school not parents or teachers as I have included certain activities that only students can attend for example: On my contents page ‘Babe of the bay’ is only aimed for students.

Because I aimed my product for students I ensured I only included specific linguistics to interest them to read on for example: rhetorical questions to make the reader think, short sentences so it’s snappy and they don’t have to read as much etc. Also I included storied on a play in school called ‘Guys and Dolls’ as plays in the school are very popular with all the students.

Because my product was aimed at students I had to create a very strong image as other student magazines had done this. So I chose to use flash photography instead of normal lighting on my image as it made the image stand out more and look more creative like my magazine. Also the flash made my image more polished looking and students usually go for a more interesting good photo. Also photoshop was a great help to construct my magazine as I had many layers to create different fonts and pictures. The layers enabled me to work with one part of my magazine at a time and also if I needed to delete a word I could delete the word without deleting the whole product which saved a lot of time. Also I tilted a lot of my photos and put a border around them using photoshop. Overall I think photoshop helped me greatly as it made my magazine look more professional and polished.