Evaluation for my Contents page

My contents page came from some of the ideas that I found from previous contents pages that that I researched on. My contents page includes a silver colored title that is the biggest size out of all the writing on the page, its the biggest size as I want it to stand out as a title and so the reader knows it's a contents page. The logo is on the right as some of the magazine front covers I looked at had the logo on the right, so I put the logo on the right side of the contents page.

The picture of the Aspirations Building is a background for 4 my cover lines as i looked through some of the contents pages that had a plain background, as the contents was to do with school, so I put a school building as a background and of the Moilett center, 2 buildings of the school. However the cover lines would have looked better without the boxes that are in white, although they do make the black writing stand out but the color of the numbers '1,2,3,4' don't stand out in sliver,the color should have been brighter so it stood out against the grey  shades of the building, the color should have been yellow and it would have linked in with the logo of the Academy.

The other 4 cover lines at the bottom  are on a white background as I wanted the 4 cover lines at the bottom to stand out as they are put on the left, readers tend to read from left and right, so the  picture will be seen first however I want the cover lines to have some importance to.

The colors I used on the contents page were black  and silver which were used as the Aspirations building is blue and silver. The yellow in the logo stands out, it suggests happiness and joy however at the same time suggests cowardice, but in this context it suggests determination and friendship as Hamstead Hall is a academy that takes full care of all their students.

I took the image of the aspirations building as I wanted a image of the school that was close to blue as the logo of the academy is blue. However the logo could have been bigger and in size. Their could have been a background for the Contents title but the cover lines wouldn't have stood out if their was a background on the whole of the page, so blank spaces were left.

Image's used on the Contents Page

Image's I used on the contents page are of the Aspirations building and the Moillet centre.

Evaluation for my Magazine Front Cover

My magazine front cover was made from some ideas that I found from previous magazines from the  research I carried out on magazine front covers.

I chose to use colors like orange and yellow because they are bright colors that denote happiness and warmth. Orange has connotations of joy, represents enthusiasm and has invigorating effect  that stimulates mental activity, so the use of orange was to show determination and for it to look bright, however I think bright colors like orange should be used on a dark background instead of on a white plain background, as the colors don't stand out as much as I thought they would, so that would be my improvement on using dark fonts on a light background and on a dark background use light color fonts.

The picture that I took is of a medium close up of a peer who go's along with the 'Exchange Students' and the picture is on the right hand of the page as most magazines that I looked at had their image on the right, not as much on the left. Putting the picture on the right was because audiences tend to read from left to right, so I wanted my writing on the cover to have importance over the image. The use of silver as a color on the cover lines go's with the black writing under each cover line as the silver color has tints of black in.

I have used yellow for 'Gcse Results' so it doesn't stress students out, as Gcse's is a stressful word in itself, so I used yellow to bring warmth and joy so they have confidence in passing and revising. I used orange for 'Helpful Guide' although it doesn't stand out, the background isn't fully blue, hence the orange doesn't stand out, as it's a blue and white ban. I also used a issue number as some magazines use them and it look's professional to some extent although the size could have been a bit bigger. Also the writing I used under my cover lines are in capitals and in black as capitals express the need to pick it up and suggets seriousness, although it could have the connotations of shouting and being rude, but in this scenario it suggests importance.

However I think the wording of the cover lines is good to a extent but I could have done better with adding a background and using a different combination of colors like blue as the school has blue in it's logo, but I wanted to use different colors however it would have been better to use blue so it linked in with the context of a school magazine.

Annotated magazines

I annotated some magazines below that helped me to make my magazine front cover as it gave me some ideas on what a magazine should have, so a magazine cover needs 3 - 4 colours and cover lines, the research showed where image's and titles are supposed to be and roughly an idea of how much picture's needed on the magazine front cover.

Magazine Front Cover

Contents Page

Attempts to making front covers for Magazines

                                             Attempts at making magazine front covers

 With the research I carried out, I attempted to make my own covers and that helped me to make my own magazine front cover as it gave me a idea on what a magazine cover needs. From the research carried out I found that a magazine needs the basis of a title, image and cover line's. From further research I found some magazine covers had a bar code and banner at the bottom.

The improvements I made was to add a bar code in the corner to make it look like a magazine