Evaluation of college magazine.

For this task I created my own college magazine using Photoshop. The name of my magazine is "inside L.S.C", it is also the masthead of my front cover.
The cover star is a student holding a folder and making eye contact with the camera (audience). I had to look for a model and take the picture with my phone. She is wearing all black clothes and I think that made a good contrast with the background which is a white/beige wall.
The colour scheme is black, white and brown. I used orange in some cover lines to make them stand out. Most of the cover lines are aligned left. On the right side of the cover star I included a quote from one of the articles and also at the bottom right I wrote some information about the article that is about the cover star's experience at the university after being a LSC student.
For the cover lines I used the same font but mixing different colours and sizes. The masthead is at the top of the page and the font is different from the cover lines because it is the name of the magazine and it is also the biggest text.
My goal was to keep the front cover simple and I think I achieved that, it looks neat and professional.

Moreover, I had to create the contents page of the college magazine using InDesign. As I already used this program, I knew how to create the contents page.
I decided to do a double spread for the contents because I wanted to include a picture of two students in one of the pages. At the top of the other page I wrote the name of the magazine with brown letters. I used the same font for all the contents text. The numbers are bigger and with another font, also they are in chronological order. Lastly, I added another picture in the page, this one is smaller and there are some boys in it.
As some of the comments that I had on this task said "The contents page goes with the front cover". I agree with it, I wanted to link the contents page with the front cover, so I used the same colour scheme and similar fonts. Some comments said that I could add a puff, I didn't really have time to finish the front cover therefore there were some things I wanted to put but due to the deadline I couldn't. To improve this task I can include all these things such as a puff, barcode and social media links.Another recommendation was to use the same font for the numbers on the contents page and to use a regular size.

Overall, I think I did a good job on this task and I managed to create both a front cover and a contents page on my own. I learnt how to use a new program (Photoshop) and I expanded my knowledge using InDesign. This task gave me the chance to get to know these programs in more depth and when I create my music magazine I will be able to use them.

I will work on:
1. Managing better my time.
2. Trying to use similar or the same fonts in contents page.
3. Using a smaller size for the number of the pages.
4. Including more assets like a puff and a barcode.