The document provides an evaluation of the design elements of a school magazine cover and contents page. It notes that the masthead font is basic but creates a professional tone. The feature photo quality is good but could be better cut out. The "School magazine of the year" puff uses small, squished font that does not stand out. The plugs are not well aligned and make the magazine seem less professional. The filler uses a handwriting font that can be hard to read and includes red text that does not fit the house style. The contents page photos are low quality, not aligned, and irrelevant to articles. The sells and font also do not match the house style and there is a lot of negative space. Photoshop

3. MASTHEAD
The quality of my masthead is quite high, the text is not pixelated,
however the font used does not really stand out as it is quite
basic and is in black. The tone it creates is professional and this
fits in to my house style.

4. FEATURE PHOTO
The quality of my photo is good in terms of it not being stretched or
pixelated, however the quality of how it has been cut out is not great.
There are parts which could’ve been cut out better and blended better
as some of the edges are rough and some parts of the background
remain on them. The image conveys a boy who is quite proud of himself
from the way in which he is stood tall. The way he is not making eye
contact with the camera suggests he could see himself as being of a
high status as people don’t need to get a front on view of his face to
know who he is. This links in with the plug that informs us it is ‘Max
Reardon’ who is ‘Student of the week’

5. PUFF
The puff ‘School magazine of the year’, suggests that this magazine is of a
high status however, the font used is quite small and squished together
and does not really stand out in comparison to the rest of the front
cover, which contradicts this phrase as it implies the opposite.

6. PLUGS
The plugs used give insight to what articles you would find inside. The font
is quite simple and basic however it makes it clear to read. The plugs
are not in line with each other in columns which makes the magazine
seem less professional, therefore not fitting in with the house style.

7. FILLER
The filler which is also a plug informs that there is a competition inside this
magazine. The text is situated inside an oval shape, which is light
yellow to match the background. The font used resembles handwriting
and could be hard to read. Black text has been used to match the rest of
the text on the front cover, however one part is in red which however
makes it stand out, but does not fit in with the house style.

8. PHOTO
There is one other photo apart from the feature photo on the front cover. It
is the schools logo and is gold, which matches the yellow background.
The quality however is not very good as it has been enlarged to fill more
space and looks fuzzy.

10. HEADLINE
The headline uses a very basic font and it is quite small and does not take
up a lot of room, so there is a lot of negative space.

11. PHOTOS
The photos used in my contents page are not of very good quality. They are
also not lined up together and one even overlaps a box. They are also
irrelevant to the articles featured and don’t link to them.

12. SELLS
There are a few sells on my contents page which outlines what is included
in the magazine with page references. However the use of font is very
basic and also the colour does not match the house style. The contents
page is very empty with a lot of negative space.

13. TECHNOLOGY
To make my magazine, I have used Photoshop elements 8.0, a digital
camera and also blogger to post my evaluation. On Photoshop, I used
various effects such as the blur tool, magic wand, shape tool and text
tool.