Evaluation on my Magazine Task

I have recenelty finished my magazine task here and I have now come to evaluating my work.

Evaluation

Once I started my magazine my main ambition was to make sure I make a stylish looking magazine that looks professionally well done and attracts attention, this would be the media language I would use. My first task was create the layout and although it was simple it was very well spaced out and once I inserted a background, pictures and text it would look like the colours off these items would not effect the background. Since the magazine was based around Wyke college I stuck with the home colours of la light blue which I used on my logo, as well as various effects which shows that it is aimed for Wyke, as well as taking images and using text that are all relevant to Wyke college.

Since my magazine is made from Wyke Students for Wyke students, there was no need to make up a publishing company which would produce the magazine for the students, although the company behind the publishing was Wyke college I guess we can see the institution of the magazine is Wyke College.

My cover of the magazine is based around Wyke college and includes story’s from around wyke college, so people can say that Wyke students, teachers and parents/guardians would be interested in reading about the magazine, this is the ideology of my magazine. My background was a portrait picture of a friend on top of the Oak balcony in the Oak building, holding the student hand book and in the background was the new library and some new features in the Wyke building, this was done to show that the magazine is what it was made for and that is a Wyke college magazine.

As the magazine was made for it is obviously aimed for the students, teachers and parents/guardians of Wyke college as I stated earlier, I think this works rather well because it does as it was made for and has a lot of stories that have been going on around wyke college. I believe my target audience worked rather well in this task.

Representation is a very important thing I have been taught about since I have taken media here at Wyke, because it can offer good and bad points of my magazine and it would judge how good it is or not. I believe the magazine has the representation of a true college magazine because it includes everything a college magazine should, such as information of the new buildings or teachers, how the local sports teams are doing and special offers to inform the students and as well as many other things, I believe this is a good representation of my college magazine.

I feel like I did rather well in this task but I did not use my time correctly because I almost had a week left with no work done, but since I changed my act and got to work harder thanks to my teacher I managed to get on track to finishing it. I think the good points about this task that once I got myself together I worked hard to get this work done, but I also feel like this task did not go very well because I did not know what I was doing at first, as well as my college magazine looks pretty rough in ways (Rough images, simple and boring text, word art use etc). Keeping these problems in mind it will help me work better in my future tasks so I take this as a learning point in my work here at Wyke that I should work harder and use my time more wisely in the future.

Contents Page Draft!

This is a draft of my contents page I made on Publisher. enjoy...

My College Magazine Cover!

I have finnaly been able to complete my Colleger magazine cover, below is what it shall look like.

Conventions on my Magazine Cover and Content's page UPDATED!

22/10/10: I have now managed to upload my images for the drafts of my contents page, cover page and some logo designs, I apologise for the quality of my scanned drafts.

From the information I have gathered from my previous post (Check my last blog), I have been given ideas that I can use for my magazine cover and contents page.

The Cover

From the two magazine's cover I looked at they both seem to use as the main background an image of college students from a photo or edited photo using a photo editing software (Photoshop, Fireworks etc), I will follow the same idea and take a picture of a fellow student in an area of my college.

The photo will be portrait size so it can fill the page, the magazine's title will be at the top of the page.

As for the contents of the cover I will include small picture of wyke related story and will be the main headlines of the magazine, including another creative word art text to tell whats inside the magazine. I am soon going to find out some story's based around Wyke such as the local sports teams, future events or the completion of the Wyke OAK Building and campus area.

NOTE: The barcode will not be included now!

Contents Page

The contents page's I have looked at from the examples I have been researching both obviously give story's of the college and where to find them in there magazine, this is what normally people to expect in a contents page but I have noticed the use of a creative border and text that is brigth and appealing onto the contents page.

I am going to use a similar colourful border that surrounds my contents page, and inside will be a simple text to direct the reader to the certain pages, I will alsom use the images from the headlines of the cover page so it will have further information and where to find the page inside the contents page.

Logo

Before I updated this post I came up with names for my magazine, I decided to go with "Wyke Weekly". Below are some cencept designs for my magazine logo.

These ideas have helped me alot with coming up with ideas for my future magazine.

LIIAR College Magazing Examples UPDATED!

For tyhis latest task I have looked at two different College Magazines front cover and contents page and use LIIAR to analyse them, below are my results.

Example 1

This is the cover for a Student Life magazine made by another Media student at East Riding College.

Language: The language used in this piece is simple and goes straight to the point, we know its a college magazine because of the title which is named "Student Life", and we notice other features on the front page indicating it has came from a college because it features alot of information on the college and activities.

Institution: The magazine does not have an organisation about it, just a college that does not have any TV shows, radio programs etc.

Ideoloy: The magazine features no sort of ideology that I have not noticed.

Audience: This magazine is obviously ment to be aimed at the students of the college magazine, and it does so very well with interesting smart lay out, simply text and a great picture for the magazines front cover.

Representation: The magazine features limited colours, apart from an eye ctaching photo there is mainly a black background that shows power and intelligence. It also uses white text to let it stand out and easyily read.

This is the contents page for the "Student Life" college magazine.

Language: The contents page expresses the language simply and gets straight to the point, it is relevant to the college magazine because it tells the reader where to find the page of a certain topic, and each topic is relevant to a college interest.

Institution: The magazine does not have an organisation about it, just a college that does not have any TV shows, radio programs etc.

Ideoloy: The magazine features no sort of ideology that I have not noticed.

Audience: This magazine is obviously ment to be aimed at the students of the college magazine, unlike the cover page this contents page uses alot more colours and pictures that stand out and appeal pretty well, they could of made a smarter lay out so there wouldn't be alot of blank spaces.

Representation: The contents page uses more colours in the background such as a black border, white background and a lime green contents box so the writing can be easily read.

Example 2

This is a College magazine example from Grimsby College.

Language: The language used in this magazine is very appealing and gives a urban look and it it gives people the idea it is aimed to the youth, the text if read is seen to be aimed at college.

This is the Contents page for the Grimsby College magzine.

Language: The contents page uses a ride range of colours, adds and pictures that makes it look professionally done. If read people could see  was aimed for the young students that go to the college.

Institution: The magazine does not have an organisation about it, just a college that does not have any TV shows, radio programs etc.

Ideoloy: The magazine features no sort of ideology that I have not noticed.

Audience: Like the other examples I have presented it is simed towards a college student from the certain college they go to.

Representation: Like its cover it used alot of colours, pictures and adds that appeal to look like its a young urban magazine that is aimed to the young.

LIIAR Interpatation of the Brief

Language: The terminology used in a piece of Media. The language and terms have to be relevant to the media piece.

Institution: The company behind the magazine that also has a list of other media formats, such as TV shows/channels, websites radio shows.

Ideology: Individual media pieces that try to get across such as different themes and ideas that could be relevant to the certain product that would use sterotypical add campaigns to ger there product noticed.

Audience: The target audience of the product and what the product should be aimed for, such as if I was making a magzine based around education my audience would be students and teachers.

Representation: How the concepts of Ideology are put forward to show the themes of the product, such as valentine's day cards that use the representation of the colour red to show love, compassion etc.

The Brief

Preliminary Excercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front pageof a new schoo/colege magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plussome appropiately laid-out text and masthead.Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their graspof DTP.