07/10/2013

EVALUATION OF COVER MAGAZINE

Masthead: it’s at the top of the cover magazine. It’s quite big and there’s also the logo of the school. I chose to do it so because I think it’s one of the most important thing in a cover magazine. It has to attract the reader and makes him/her interested.

Colors: the most used colors are red, orange, green and blue. You can find them in the titles and in the pictures. I chose this colors because I think they attract the reader.

Images: I chose three images for my cover magazine: one is a medium close-up of a student. She’s looking at the camera and she’s smiling (this shows happiness). I chose a medium close-up because the reader has to see the details of the image, try to understand the feelings of the student and what I want to express with this picture. The student is in the garden in front of one of the building of the school and she’s wearing a t-shirt and a jacket: this shows also the dress code!

The color of the t-shirt is connected to a title on the cover magazine.

The other one is a photograph of the school. I chose this picture to show the main building and some free spaces you can find in school. This picture shows the place where the sixth form students meet each other every morning, the place where they have lunch, they study, they spend their break playing table tennis and chatting in this beautiful garden.

The last one is a photograph of some people who are playing table tennis in the garden of the school: this picture shows that at school students can do something else, and not only study!

Font choice: I chose to write the titles in bold and use colors that can be connected to the colors of the images. The titles are big so that they can attact the reader.

Layout: there are three photographs: two big photos under the title and one smaller below on the right. I chose these positions because I think that a magazine with big photographs attract more than one with a lot of titles.

Students: This magazine is addressed to students of the age between 16 – 18 years old.

Language: neither formal nor informal.