Evaluation

Evaluation

Evaluation of front cover

My magazine uses similar conventions to other magazines in ways such as a main image being the centre of attention. My image is a medium shot that attracts all the attention when my target audience pick up the magazine. The image is larger than it would be unlike other professional magazine. I had done this to keep my magazine simplistic without other things that would drag the attention away from the image. The image is of two students who are facing away from each other and looking in the distant. This image asserts my theme for the issue. The theme of the magazine is about problems that the students could be facing in there lives. I decided to place my master-head at the side of the magazine as you can see. I had done this to create a sense of uniqueness to my magazine, as you hardly see other magazine that place there title on the side. This could also be another aspect that would attract my audience as it is not stereotypically like other magazine. The font is big and bold, suggesting that the magazine will be able to help the student’s problems. The bar code is inserted at the top left hand side of the magazine, instead of placing it at the bottom, which again goes against the norms of a normal magazine.

As you can see I have darken one of the students in the image. I had done this as this is the student who is facing the problems. I don’t have a lot of writing on my magazine like a “gossip” magazine. The information gets straight to the point and shows the target audience what will be featuring inside of the magazine. I have also inserted boxes that have been ticked encouraging students who are having a difficult time that other people face it and to try to help them to open up. There are not a lot of magazine that dedicate a whole issue on teenage problems so this could attract my target audience.

Distribution of magazine

Distributing my magazine will be easy as it would be handed out to school/college all over the country. However, I might have difficulty in distributing the magazine as it is a niche magazine and only target certain audiences.