My Ideas Of My Magazine And Contents Page

Lesson Twelve - 18/03/2011

Previously and during this lesson I was able to complete the front cover of my magazine. I must say however, that it was not an easy task as I had to make sure that I used consistency of the colour of writing otherwise it would not have made sense to the target audience. I also had to make sure that the image was positioned in the correct area to save my magazine cover from looking chaotic. Aside all of this, I did make sure that I did not have a lot of unnecessary things going on which is exactly what I wanted to do as I did not want the target audience to bet bored of my magazine. Here is an example to show what my front cover looks like.

I feel like I was able to to a successful job in creating the front cover of my magazine. This is for the way in which I was able to make sure that I did not have a lot of things going on on the front cover. I did this by causing less chaos and by adding things that were important for the target audience to want to read. I feel like I was consistent in the use of font and in the colour. I did this so that it did confuse the audience as they would not have been aware of what was going on. I think that I was able to use the colour of the font well as I tried to give it a bit of gold as I knew that within the genre the colour gold is used a lot in various aspects of the music. I was happy that I was able to use my chosen colour background which was a dim grey, However, I did find it difficult to make sure that I used the correct colour of writing as at times ( whilst I was still working on it) it made it difficult to see the writing which would have not been appealing to the audience.

After doing this I also managed to finish and complete my contents page. Here is an example to show what it looks like. From this example it shows that I was able to create a simple contents page without going over the top. However, I began to find that I may need to add in at least one more picture on both the contents page and the front cover as I need to remember that I am creating a magazine which needs to include a variety of different things in order to have more of a diverse magazine. When I do this , I need to make sure that I do not forget about the interest of my target audience as whatever I do will determine whether they would like to carry on reading the magazine or choose not to look at it. There was something that I managed to do that was good which was the consistency which I found that was a success as it makes my work look a lot better and again it becomes a lot easier for the audience to understand and to make sense of. Personally, I feel that I did a good job setting out the photographs the way I did (which was diagonally from each other) as it was a difference to what the other students in my class had made. This was a good thing for as it meant that I am able to stand out and become unique with my work other than worrying about other peoples work. Even though I am currently manging to complete this coursework task, it is not as easy as I have noticed that nearly everyone is concious abouu how great their magazine will look and how else they can make it bette without copying exsisting magazines.