The document provides an evaluation of the student's final magazine project titled "MASWAGGER". It summarizes the key elements and design choices for the front cover, contents page, and a featured double page article spread. Feedback from surveys indicated that visual elements like main images and layouts were particularly appealing to the target audience of younger urban music fans. The represented artist and style helped brand the magazine as focused on hip hop, R&B, and rap music genres.
2. My Magazine – Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread .
3. Masthead Skyline Left third - where the magazines are stacked to show the left third in news agents. Main image Lead article Pull quote - a direct quote from the artists in the lead article. Cover lines Barcode The Magazine’s Key Features. The Z Format – where your eye naturally falls as you read from left to right, then the image draws you eye down the page and then across the bottom. Front Cover
4. Featured articles Main image – poster style The Picture is supplemented with a caption and a page number which correlates to the double page spread to help capture visual readers and help them navigate through the magazine Caption Pull quotes Contents Page
5. Headline – Both colours and bold text have been used to highlight the important information in the headline. Direct quotations – quotes from interviewed people Main image – poster style Page divide – one half is text-led the other is picture-led Double Page Spread
6. Direct quotation Tone & register – I have used slang/colloquial expressions in my article to relate to the values, aspirations and lifestyles of my target audience. Use of graphics in background to create dept and colour, also helps tie this to the previous page creating a consistent double page spread. Text-led – the third page holds the majority of the article, the previous pages acts as an into to the article. Double Page Spread
17. “ Which page do you prefer, my front cover, contents page or double page spread and why?”
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22. Looking back at my Preliminary Tasks. First Preliminary Task – CD Cover: Front and Back. Second Preliminary Task – College Magazine: Front Cover and Contents Page.
23. First Task – CD Covers. I used PS Brushes to create a smoky effect and used the same brush on both the front and back cover to create continuity. I used original images, copying them on to different layers and using curves to manipulate the colours and contrast.
24. Second Task – College Magazine. I used some conventional key features on the front cover: sky line, masthead, cover lines, main image etc. I used brushes to create an interesting background. I linked the articles with the page numbers and had them in order of appearance.
