preliminary task

For the preliminary task I had to create a front cover and contents page for a college magazine. I used all the conventions of a normal magazine.

I was giving a grade D for this work. The feed back that I was given from my teacher was that I had used a good colour scheme, the image for the front cover was of a good quality, I have included all the conventions of the front cover and contents page. The areas of improvement were for the contents page, I didn't use space correctly, I should have adjusted the layout to make everything look spaciously fluid.

last years work

I looked at last years work and chose five magazines to outline strengths, weaknesses and a grade. I did this so that I could learn what the negative things of magazines are to make sure I avoided them and to find out what the strengths were so that I could include them in my own magazine. The things which I found were good good layout of the magazine, bold fonts for the masthead and consistent colour. The weaknesses of the magazine were too many different fonts, quality of the images and amount of images.                                                                                 

Jarvis Cocker

I created a front cover for a music magazine with Jarvis Cocker as the cover image. To help me produce this magazine I had to research his music and his background, this helped me to look for other bands of the same genre to feature in the magazine. Because the magazine is for rock music I tried to make the colour scheme appropriate. I chose red and black, not only do these colours stand out but they are gender neutral colours which will widen the audience for the magazine. I used the title "pitch" as it is not specific to any genre of magazine and works well with music. I will be using this name for the masthead of my final product as it works very well with music.I have put in all the classic conventions of a front cover magazine, the date, masthead, barcode etc.