Personal learning and evaluation of school/college magazine

Things I’ve learnt: College Magazine Front Cover
I learnt that in most of the college magazines that the students are always represented as respectable, happy and well groomed pupils. However this is just a stereotype because everyone knows that not all students are like this. The reason why the college magazines do this is because it gives the general impression and image that the college is a friendly and happy place to be. In my college magazine front cover made sure that I went against the typical stereotype that the students are very well behaved by having an image of a student drinking. This went against the original conventions of a college magazine and made it seem more honest for the students. I’ve also learnt from the research that most fonts used on the front cover are bold and easy to read, I’m going to incorporate this into my front cover and also in my contents page. I learnt that when I’m planning the costume for my models that they are plain not pattered clothes because I found it hard in this task to fit the style and font of my writing to the background because of the models costume.

I’ve also learnt the Typical Features:
•Logo
•Masthead
•Bar code
•Issue number
•Main image
•Strap line
With all of these things that I have learnt I will incorporate them into my preliminary college, magazine front cover.

College Magazine Contents page
Although I do think that my contents page has a simple structure to it I’ve learnt that when I do the main task to find a way to make the contents page look interesting and clear for the audience to read. To make the contents page more interesting I may use more images as many of the college magazines used at least 3 images on the contents page and also a plain colour. This will make the magazine seem more stylish but yet also have that simple structure for the reader. I also learnt that the main reason to have a contents page is to make it easy for the reader to find where the pages are that they are looking for; I think I did this well by making my contents page have an easy to follow structure.

I also learnt the Typical Features:
•Three images of top stories/headlines
•Regulars & Special features sub-headings
•Page numbers
•Letter from the editor
•Easy-to-follow structure

With all of these things that I’ve learnt I will make sure I co-operate them into my final task.