Analysis of front cover for college magazine

On the front of my magazine I have a picture of a female student sitting on the steps in front of the entrance of the collage reading a book, this shows that this magazine is for a studying environment and shows not just subjects but other events. I stuck to a certain colour scheme in my magazine so it is colour co-ordinated and this makes it look much neater and it will look more professional. I used 2 main colours orange and blue as it represents the colour of the college. I also used this type of text because it looks smart and so it is easy to read. This already makes the magazine much better because the writing is big and bold and don’t have to make too much effort to read everything. I didn’t write too much on the front cover because I know that students especially of are age don’t like to read too much about certain things so I kept the writing at the minimum but not so it looks empty. As well as this, I used the college magazine questionnaire to help me because this way I could pick the most popular answers and what people would love to see in the magazine so that I would put the most popular events and subjects so I already know that the students would be interested and would read further. I chose to take this picture in the location that I had because it suits the theme of the magazine and also it would be irrelevant to take it anywhere else, this means that it is suitable for the magazine. These reasons also helped me with what I should take the picture of. I took the picture of the female sitting down with books because it shows that she is obviously in education. Other reason is because a student on the front cover smiling makes it very positive and brightens up the mood of the magazine. I also made her wear a bright coloured headband so you don’t just look at the females face or expressions you are attracted to every part of the picture.

The only thing that I think I could improve is my skills on paint shop pro because if I knew how to use all the tools my magazine would be much more exiting and different to what it is now as i would use all the tools I can to make my magazine much better.

My contents page has a picture of 2 girls reading a college book in front of the college again to show that they are in the working environment.  I have kept the colours the same so it doesn’t look scruffy and I also put on the contents page what people said they wanted the most from the college magazine from the questionnaire.