Evaluation Of My Final Piece.

While working on the magazine and developing my ideas,i have learnt a lot about recognising the conventions in different magazines and how they attract the desired audience.
The whole task has helped me and given me good practice on how to design the layouts and think ideas through and decide if they are worth using. After trying ideas out, i successfully finished my final version of my college magazine front cover and a mock up of the contents page.

My final version is a college photography Magazine, which is aimed at photography students or students just interested in photography. it includes the normal conventions and features of a photography magazine. i made sure i put the date, issue number, masthead, sub masthead, main headline, sub headline, a main image and an additional image. I decided that i didn't want my Magazine front cover to be to bright, as i thought it would look more like a "Gossip" magazine. But i didn't want the cover to look to dull, so i decided to use yellow font for the plugs.

Simple Design of the contexts page.

I have made my context page to look as close to a context page as possible.
I put "in this months Capture..." as a title so the audience would know it was a context page if they didn't all ready.
i Placed to photos under the title, which then leads on to the first topic included in the magazine.

Final Design Analysis.

This is My final Design for my Photography magazine for the foundation portfolio task.
After Analysing other genres of magazines, i have been able to design and create my own magazine which is aimed at students studying photography, or students who are interested in photography.

My First Ideas for my College Magazine.

First of all, i decided on the type of magazine that i was going to produce for this task.


i decided on doing a photography magazine, as i am studying Photography and buy photography magazines, so i thought this would help me a lot.


After i decided on what magazine i was going to do, i thought my title masthead, could be something to do with photography, so i made a list of words used in photography and words used by people taking photos or talking about it.

- Close up.

- Positive (as in positive and negative films).

- Snap ( as in the sound that is made by taking a photo, and people also say "snap" meaning take a photo).

- Life like.

- Visual.

- Capture.

- Exposure.

After thinking all of them through, i narrowed the list down to visual, capture, exposure and lifelike. But then i Thought "exposure" , even though it is one of the most important things in photography, sounds to much like a "gossip mag". so i decided not to use that. "visual" didn't have the right sound to it, and "life life" sounded like a nature magazine. So i decided on"Capture".

After deciding on the mast head, i started planning the layout of the front cover.

Most Photography Magazines have a photo of a landscape or A Portrait.
I decided on having a Portrait on my front cover, but of someone holding a camera and looking through the eyepiece, looking straight at you, as if he/she was taking a photo of you. I then started putting the issues going to be talked about in this issue. I decided on having the background plain white, which could mean it has been taken professional and in a studio.