Magazine Evaluation

Our magazine was called 'Inspire' and aimed at 16 -19 year olds. We aimed to target everybody and realise now that it may have been best to target a specific audience as although we covered fashion, sport, film, current affairs and music, we didn't include much more than 2 pages on each. The first thing we did was plan what we wanted to be in our magazine and then gave an article to each person with 5 articles in total and me and Denise working on the front cover, contents, photographs to be taken and editing.

 We started with the contents page and looked at other magazines such as 'Marie Claire' and followed their layouts as guidance. At first we decided who we wanted on the front cover and so went and took some pictures of Hasan for his fashion page and also for the front cover. We then took these and imported them into photo shop and worked around them adding in article titles. I found it hard using photo shop and editing text boxes that I had earlier put in and so switched to using Illustrator. I preferred working on Illustrator because it is software designed for making magazines and so I found it easier moving text boxes and images round to make them look more like a magazine. To also help with this and make the magazine look more clean and professional, next time I would stick to a colour scheme throughout the magazine as we chose the colour scheme of burgundy and white and although we kept to this on the front cover and contents page, there was all different colours on the pages inside.

The contents page didn't turn out how I had pictured it to look but I do like the way the articles are numbered with their titles. Next time I would include more pictures linked to articles inside and caption these, also change the back ground so that its not block colour.