The document summarizes the creation of a college magazine, noting that while it includes some real media conventions, the layout and graphics are simple. A blurry cut-out cover image was used along with three cover lines in a similar font to the masthead. Photoshop and Quark were used to develop the front cover and contents page, with Photoshop found easier to use. Key strengths included bold mastheads and text, but images were rushed and lacked effectiveness while more cover lines and text were needed along with greater use of standard forms and conventions.

1. My College magazine includes some of the forms and conventions of real media products however
the layout and graphics on the page are extremely simple. On my front cover I have included a cover
image of Dominique looking directly into the camera this is called direct address however the image
is blurry and has been cut around using a tool in Photoshop deleting the background but leaving
sharp edges around the new image. Not much more editing was done on the picture no enhancing
facial features or making colours brighter. I have written three cover lines on the front cover which
has been put into a font which is extremely similar to the masthead font. Three cover lines are not
enough for a well selling magazine. When creating my music magazine I will put my feature articles
and the news which is normally published in my magazine. I have placed the barcode at the bottom
of the magazine cover, with the college logo on the other side, this worked but I think a lot more
things could have worked better had I had more time.
The contents page for the magazine was fairly simple, I have just wrote a short description of what is
happening on certain pages, with pictures down one side of the page. The title at the top was
positioned to the left which worked quite well however I doubt this contents page would be seen in
any real magazine it did not hold many of the forms and conventions of a contents magazine.
I used Photoshop and Quark as media technologies to help develop the work of both my front cover
and contents page. I found Photoshop a lot easier to use, I found things a lot easier using the
different tool bars and I found different settings which I felt worked quite well on my front cover
using Photoshop.
Some of the strengths within the front cover and contents were the bold; mastheads and the text on
both pages were striking. However the images taken and used weren’t thought out, they were
rushed and didn’t look as effective as they could have looked. There needed to be more cover lines
on my front cover and more text on my contents. Over both pages there needed to be more forms
and conventions used for example on the front cover there was no puff or banner these are used to
give advertisement out to the readers making them want to buy the magazine.