Aquinas Magazine Contents Page

 

Aquinas Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page Evaluation

For my preliminary task I was asked to produce a front cover and contents page for a new college magazine I believe I was successful in doing this for the following reasons. I kept the same colour scheme and house style throughout my magazine for the audience to recognise the magazine this could be suggested as brand recognition. I also think a success of my magazine was the main cover image as it was a good example of a mid-shot as it is a conventional image of the magazine and also focuses on the body language and facial expressions enabling the audience to identify the mood the magazine is trying to set which will most likely reflect on the cover story. I used the feature of a rhetorical question in a pug for the audience to make the audience want to buy the magazine and read the articles inside. I used banners to advertise the main cover story in the contrasting colours of my colour theme to make it stand out from the rest of the front page and so also the text stood out from the background more than the other smaller stories in the magazine.

To improve my magazine front cover and contents page I could work on trying and testing out different types of fonts and try to keep the front similar only using a maximum of 3. I could have chosen fronts to match my house style better. I could also try and improve my layout skills on my contents page and maybe use more images or a pull quote to attract the audience and make them want to find out more. I could have used a more attractive colour scheme, I tried to keep my colour scheme simplistic but it would have negative side as it was quite pale colours such as pink and blue which may not attract the audience to want to pick it up off the shelf in a shop as the other magazines that use bold colours may overpower it.