Evaluation 

I have made a magazine front cover in terms of the denotation there is a photo of me standing in front of a piece of art work done by a student in the college, I also have sub headings around the picture to head line what is featured in the magazine. I have also created a contents page for the magazine and it has 3 photos of the college on the sides, I have also made 2 text box's telling you which pages contain what information. The connotations of this it shows this college has a strong reputation of art. Also the front cover is iconic as there is a photo of a student and she is smiling which shows she is happy at this college.       

I have aimed the magazine at teenagers  of ,16 - 19, looking for a college to go to when they leave school and also for students at college who are looking for more things to do. this magazine is not for just boys or just girls it is a magazine mainly aimed at art students, but it also has opportunities of what are available that you didn't know about. This magazine will let you know what art exhibitions are going on and where they are taking place. It will also tell you what times of the year they are taking students on trips and where they are going and what they are doing on the trips.

This magazine is not for parents and teachers only because there is nothing in the magazine that will take their interest, the magazine only contains  information for future students and current students. 

   

  I have developed the skills I had with the macs by using more programs e.g. photoshop.    

Before I started this project I didn't know anything about some of the technologies I used, for instance I didn't know how to use photoshop but I knew how to use a camera to take the photo's that i have used in my magazine. With photo shop I have learnt how to change the saturations of the photo to make it brighter or to make in darker also I have learnt how to cut and crop photo's to my own shapes and sizes, finally I have learnt how to cut photo's and change half of the photo with changing all of it, unfortunately I did not use this because it didn't work our as well as I thought it would. 

In the main task I hope to use more of these programs so that I can explore more about them and improve my work with the new skills I have learn.                                           

   

My finished product contains, Cover page and a contents page for my college magazine. 

I would say it was an average piece of work which has room for improvement. I feel I have managed to keep the main parts of a normal front cover but with the contents page I feel I have made it a bit more my style. I think I have clearly added the main features of the masthead as well. To improve my work i think i can have more writing for the contents of the magazine and i also feel i could have a better name for the magazine as 'college' is a bit boring.