Mini Self Assessment of Front Cover Design

Mini Self Assessment of Front Cover Design

 

 

 

Does this look like a professional magazine cover?

It looks like a professional magazine cover as there is a constant colour theme of purple, white and black which is consistent with the colour themes of the college. It has a barcode and a price tag which makes it look more real adding to the professional look of the magazine. The articles I have featured on the cover are articles you would find in a stereotypical magazine, and the models used are students. The articles and using a model from the college makes the magazine look more professional as colleges usually use their own students to promote and the articles make it look like a real magazine cover.

 

How have you used the information from your student questionnaire findings to make sure that choices made will appeal to your target audience?

I have used the information I gained from my student questionnaire findings to decide what I should include on the front cover. Most students wanted formal help about their future from a college magazine rather than a laidback magazine about real life stories, so I included articles that revolve around help to do with University and how to do well at the college stage in order to go further in the future.

 

How easy or difficult did you find In Design to use?

At first I found InDesign harder to use than Photoshop, as I already knew where most of the tools were in Photoshop but in In Design I didn’t know. It was easy to pick up as the layout was simple and it was easy to find out where objects were. The most challenging/annoying thing I found about InDesign was it was hard to select an image that was under another image if the green box was over it.

 

How easy or difficult did you find using Photoshop to enhance and cut out your main image?

I found using Photoshop to enhance and cut out my main image very easy as I already knew how to cut out and change the levels etc. in Photoshop. The only real problem I had was during the “refine edge” step as I wasn’t clicking “new document” to delete the background.