This document provides a preliminary evaluation of a magazine cover and contents page. For the cover, strengths include the high quality image and professional appearance, while weaknesses are a messy layout, bright image, and cover lines that could be more exciting. For the contents page, strengths are well-grouped images that link to articles and exciting content, while weaknesses include a lack of text content and space that could be used better.

1. Preliminary Task- Evaluation

2. Cover
Strengths:
• The cover has a very high quality image that is framed
well
• The cover looks professional with the bar code etc
• I edited the cover well on photoshop and was able to
position the models head over the writing.
• The image on the cover is lit well.
• Weaknesses:
• The layout of the cover lines is messy.
• The image is a bit too bright.
• The cover lines could be more exciting to help draw
people to read it.
• The main cover line could stand out more.
• The background of the image could be more visually
pleasing.

3. Contents Page
Strengths:
• The images are grouped well.
• The images link to the articles.
• The articles are exciting and will make people want to
read.
• The regulars and features are clearly labelled and
separated well.
• The font and colour scheme are consistent with the front
cover.
Weaknesses:
• Not enough text content.
• My column structure could be more visually pleasing.
• The space that has my cover in could be used better
maybe by making the image larger or having and
introduction to the magazine in.