Evaluation of my magazine

In this final post I am going to evaluate my final copy of my magazine front cover and my draft of my contents page. I started by LIIAR analysing two examples of college magazines, these where the East Riding College Magazine and the Grimsby Institute magazine. This then helped me what devices and other features I needed to include into my magazine. After this I began to come up with my initial ideas for my magazine.I did a LIIAR analysis of what I needed to include in my magazine. I decided what media Language, Institution, Ideology, Audience and who the magazine would represent. Whilst doing this I contained all the conventions I needed to to make my magazine look proffessional and sophisticated. I then took images around the college of what I believe was going to work for my magazine front cover. I took several images and then posted them onto my blogger and annotated each image. I then put my final ideas onto blogger, and created a draft copy on desktop publisher of my front cover of my magazine. After this I began to use photoshop to create my magazine front cover. I then created a mock-up of my contents page, to add on to my blogger. Now I am going to evaluate my magazine front cover using the LIIAR device.
Placed on my magzine front cover I have used the following techniques for my media language. On my front page I have used constant housestyles such as the same colours. I decided to use the colour schemes of blue green and a pale yellow for the background. I decided to use these colours as they connect well together, and with the writing been blue and green, as it stands off the background. I decided to choose the masthead Wyke Life because it relates to the college and it shows to the audience that it could be about Life at Wyke. The image I also used on my front cover as my main image is of a girl holding a NUS card. This image is my main image as it is a medium close-up shot. This image works well with my main headline which is NUS "Have you got yours?". I decided to choose this as my main talking point as it is aimed at everyone. In my initial ideas my target audience was to both male and female, so this then makes it attract to everyone. I also added 3 other images with 3 other sub feature headings. I added these on to attract people to see what the content would be inside. My fonts I have used have kept consistant throughout, which shows that the magazine has a proffesional look. I have also contained other features such as a price an issue number and a barcode. The institution for my magazine was Wyke college this is the publisher of the magazine and this could also be Wyke Life. The Ideology of the magzine is aimed at students of the college, I said in my initial ideas it should be aimed at males and females. I believe my magazine is good for aiming at both male and females. The meaning of this magazine is topics that are associated in college. The Audience of the magazine is male and female students. The representation of the magazine was to put across that the college has high expectation. To support this I have shown a slogan of Study to Succeed.
If I had to re-do the magazine I would change the layout of the magazine because I believe the front page is to crowded and is not as appealing as it could have been. I would re-think this because this is a vital elemt in my magazine.