Student Magazine Project Conclusion

In conclusion we had to write up a proposal about a college student magazine that we would later have to create a front page and a contents page for. I felt my proposal had all it needed init and more, although I could have gone into more detail with things like taglines and talked about why they would work and whom they are mainly aimed at and how the taglines will attract my target audience. The second part of the project was to research already published college magazines, I looked at two magazines that I found on the Internet and deconstructed there front cover, this helped me see what was needed to put in my magazine and how it should be laid out. Also what types of taglines the magazine uses. All these things helped me and influenced the final outcome of my magazine. After that I went out around college at took many pictures of people and places I could use for my front cover and images I could use in my contents page. I think the images I look where every good, I remembered the rule of thirds and that I needed to make room for things like titles and taglines so it can all fit into the image without blocking out any of the important parts like peoples faces etc. With all this research and the images I then created my front cover and contents page. I started off using InDesign to put together my front cover but having had working with Photoshop before I felt I could get a better quality front cover and contents page then if I used InDesign which I didn’t have previous experience with. I felt my front cover come out well, I had a very good starting image and I used techniques used in published magazines to make mine look more professional. My contents page was a little rushed as I missed a lesson due to a college field trip in another lesson so its not the best I could have done, however with the time I had I felt it is sufficient enough as it has the main things it needs and the images I’ve used link with the taglines which makes the whole page flow and work. I also uploaded all the photos I took onto Flickr, an online photo storage website, so they can be publicly accessed by anyone and can people comment and I can get more feedback then I normally would. Doing this project I feel it has helped me understand what is needed to make a professional and interesting magazine front cover, however I will have to look at more music magazine when it comes working on the music magazine project. Also having working on programs like InDesign and Photoshop has given me more experience and understanding to be able to produce a better outcome, also working on this project I have become more use to using the Macs and becomes more confident in what I can do on them meaning my future work can only get better.