2. What Works?
I think that the masthead of my
magazine works well as it stands out
even though it is plain black, You can
easily read it and identify what
magazine it is from the detail at the
bottom of the letters.
I also like the cover photo used, as it is
a medium close up and fits the audience
of the magazine as they are all young
students and this is made clear by the
photograph.
Another thing that I think works well is
the font choice, I have kept to a house
style with the fonts using the same one
for most of the front cover except the
lead line which I used a different font
for as I wanted it to stand out as it is the
most important part of the front cover,
3. What Works?
Again I like how I have the same
fonts as the front cover, it shows
that I have kept with the house
style, and I have also kept the same
colour scheme of pink ,black and
blue.
I also like size of the page numbers
as it is easier to read and catches
your attention, and they are all on
one side so the lists look organised.
I think that the black boxes for the
headers (Regulars/Features) looks
good as it stands out and fits with
the colour scheme and they clearly
separate the regulars from the
features.
4. What doesn’t work?
One of the things I don’t think fits
well is how close the photo is and
how many people are in it, if it was
further away it may look better as
there would be white spaces where I
could put cover lines but I have had
to put them over the clothes of the
models which I think makes the
magazine look crowded and
cramped.
I think I should have also put a
banner under the word ‘FUSION’ as
it may have made the magazine look
more professional but I couldn’t find
a colour that worked with the colours
on the image and the colour scheme.
I don’t think that this magazine looks
very professional so I think I should
5. What doesn’t work?
Because I had quite a large picture,
it takes up a lot of the space on the
page and that made it hard to fit in
all the text I wanted so it looks
squashed together and there isn't as
much information included as I
would have wanted.
I also realised that the picture used
for the contents page is really
similar to the one I used on the front
cover as there are only small
differences, I don’t think this works
as it looks like I have used the same
image and haven't been able to take
a variety of pictures.
6. What was difficult?
One of the things that I found
difficult whilst making this
magazine was picking what image to
have and where to put it, especially
in the contents page as I wanted it to
be obvious but I also needed space
for the text.
Another thing I found difficult was
what colours to choose for the
colour scheme, I came up with a
pink and blue as they match the
colours of one of the models outfits
but that isn't obvious.
I tried to make the ‘f’ in ‘FUISON’
be the identifier and change the
colour but it didn’t fit in with the
7. What was easy?
One of the easiest things about this
magazine was taking the pictures for
the front cover as it was a lot of fun
and the models in the group photo
made it easy to take pictures as they
weren't nervous about it.
Another easy thing was the research I
did to develop my ideas about
magazines, I found it interesting to
look at different styles of magazines
and it really helped me look at the
different ways magazines can be
made and presented.
I also found it easy to decide what
articles to have in my college
magazine because as I am a student
8. What have you learnt?
One of the major things I have learnt from this process is
to always research before you start designing, I got a lot
of ideas from lots of different magazine styles and this
really helped me decide what I wanted my magazine to
look like.
I have also learnt to take a variety of photos as even if
you don’t think they will look good you will have a lot
to work with and this makes it easier to choose which
one suits your magazines style and genre. I think I will
do this next time as I only had a small range of images
which were all quite similar and if I had taken lots of
different styles of photos then my magazine may be
clearer and look more professional.
9. If you had all the money and time in
the world what would you change and
why?
I think I would spend more time looking for fonts
which would work as a masthead or lead line as my
lead line font is quite simple and boring which
doesn’t make it attract the reader.
I think I would also buy lots of props for my photo
shoot as this may make it look more interesting and
colourful.
I would also spend more time on the contents page,
mixing the images around and trying to fit more
text in. I could also make a strip line of images to
go at the bottom as this way the images are all small
but still add colour to the page and I would also be
able to fit more information in.
10. Magazines I can compare to…
NME contents page – I tried to make the page
numbers as big as possible so they would
stand out and make the writing small so it
seems optional to read it.
Look – I tried to make my magazine fashion
based and Look Magazine is a fashion based
magazine, on this cover the cover lines almost
take over the lead image which I think has
happened to my cover as there is a lot of text
and it drags your attention away from the lead
image.
The masthead for Look is also simple and
doesn’t have an identifier, however you can
still tell it’s a Look magazine because the
masthead is so big and bold that it over
powers the other text on the page. This is
