The document summarizes the skills and techniques used to create magazine covers and contents pages for a college publication. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the author's work, comparing it to professional magazines. Areas for improvement include using fonts, colors, and images that are easier to read and that work better together. The document also notes limitations of using a college camera with time constraints that affected image quality.

1. The finished products

2. Identifiable font
Large mast head Direct mode of address
Splash
Cover lines
Banner – Main covering
line
Barcode
Date, issue number,
price (free)
Following the codes and conventions of magazine covers:

3. Following the codes and conventions of magazine contents:
“Contents written at
top”
Pictures
Name of magazine
Small font
White background
3 columns
Categories/features
Website
Limited colour
scheme/house style

4. Comparing my work with a professional
(challenging the conventions)
Title is too small
Cover lines are in boxes,
which looks strange
Image isn’t cut out
of background, like
with mine

5. Comparing my work with a professional
(challenging the conventions)
White background
Only one image, unlike mine
which has 3 and looks too busy
I only used 3
columns

6. Evaluating uses of new media technologies:
Use of new media technologies:
• Photoshop
Skills used in Photoshop:
• Use of the magnetic lasso tool
• Cropping and resizing images
• Shape tool (for making splashes and banners)
Skills that need developing more in Photoshop:
• Using colours that work better together
• Smoother cropping/deleting backgrounds
• Using easier to read fonts
Use of new media technologies:
• Quark
Skills used in Quark:
• Use of the text tool to make headlines/columns/text
• Cropping and resizing images
Skills that need developing more in Quark:
• Resizing certain images

7. Overall Weaknesses of my cover:
• Colours do not work well together
• Photograph used is not lit very well and isn’t in full focus
• The photograph looks out of place on the cover
• Cover lines are in boxes, which looks odd.
• In comparison to professional magazines, my attempt is very basic
• The font is not very easy to read on the cover lines, it would be better to use
a different font for these parts and only use the current font for the title
• The magazine would look more professional if there were more cover lines
Overall weaknesses of my cover

8. Overall weaknesses of my contents
Overall Weaknesses of my contents:
• The Facebook and Twitter images are too large and do not have any
information regarding how to find the college on these websites
• The link to the website looks out of place
• There are too many images
• “14. The Essentials” the white box is too large and the text looks odd in this
place
• There are limited sections in the contents, making the overall page look bare
• Though the font is small, it is still too large when compared with a
professional contents page, this makes my product look incomplete

9. Using the Camera
• Using the college camera under strict time constraints limited the quality of my images greatly, I was able to edit the photos taken in
Photoshop, however, to get them to the highest quality that I could manage.
Image unused: it was unfocused Image unused: it was unfocused
Image used: it was the most in-focus
photo and was a mid-shot
Image unused: the photo is not close
enough