Magazine: Evaluation

My text is similar to other magazines because I have used a bold masthead, cover lines and strap lines which will attract the teenage audience to read and purchase my magazine. I have also included a mid close up of a student who is in college so it will draw the reader in. the masthead is large, colourful and bold so it would appeal to the reader.

I used QuarkXPress to make my magazine cover for college students. It helped me to create it as it was an easy programme to use and it was quite a quick process to create the whole magazine. Also because they use boxed to create text or to add a picture it made it simple to lay everything out and if I needed to change anything all I needed to do was move or delete the box. I didn’t really find any difficulties to create my magazine and contents page using this programme.

I also used Photoshop to edit the image for the main sell of the magazine. I found this quite simple and I used the crop tool to make the image the correct size for the cover, the healing brush to clear up the skin and remove spots and blemishes, I also used the burn tool to darken his eyes. I didn’t face any major problems while using this programme.

I believe I was able to communicate to my audience effectively as we include cover lines and strap lines to attract my target audience e.g. freebies and how to get good grades, also how to get the best social life possible without ruining your grades. I believe that this magazine cover would attract my audience and would encourage them to buy the magazine.

My magazine cover which I created was targeted at the social group of teenage students aged between 16-19 years old who are currently studying AS and A2 levels. It is targeted at these by using cover lines and strap lines which would appeal to this social group. They are represented by the main sell and the other sections of this magazine which I created. I included messages which would attract my audience, and by using direct mode of address it makes the magazine more appealing and personal for the reader. The values I put into my magazine balanced out between the educational and social aspects of college. This would help the target audience in both ways. Also it could reduce the stress of a college life.