My final Double Page Spread and evaluation

My evaluation: http://www.slideshare.net/RossiniBoyzzz8/my-magazines-double-page-spread

My Final contents and evaluation

My evaluation: http://www.slideshare.net/RossiniBoyzzz8/my-magazine-front-cover-12776503

My Final front cover and evaluation

My evaluation: http://www.slideshare.net/RossiniBoyzzz8/my-magazine-front-cover-12886142

Professional advise

Today, we had two professionals come into our school for a day to analyse our work and point out the positives and negatives of our coursework. One of the professionals helped out with the movie coursework and the other helped us with our magazines.

We went through my work and he commented on the things he liked and disliked on my front page, contents and double page spread. Some of the positives he said about my work was:
Front page:                                            Contents:                                                    Double page spread:
-The colour scheme                              -The picture                                             -The 'Plane Crash'
-Font
-The wall background                          - The black and white background           - The spotlight picture
-The title name and font                       - The setting on the photoshoot                - The snap shots
-The picture

He wasn't keen on some of the decisions I had made in my magazine. These were:
-The empty space next to the the title (front page)
-Too much blue on all the pages
-Not enough pages advertised on the contents
-The paragraph about The Strike (Contents)
-Big blue banner (Double page spread)
- The size of the font (Double page spread)
-Yellow background (Double page spread)

After he told me the things that didn't look very good, we started to come up with solutions to solve them. These were:
-Add either an arrow or a magazine symbol in the empty space
-Change the colours of the blue banners to red
-Add another column of pages into the contents
-Make the fonts smaller and write more
-Change the background colour to black and white like the contents

Fonts

I've chosen certain fonts as they are relevant to the genre of my magazine. On the front page I used a big bold double lined font as it immediately grabs attention and gives the name of the magazine importance. It also gives the magazine a stylish and slick look which my target audience would love! I used the font 'market felt' for the subtitles on the front page as it looks similar to graffiti which gives it an urban feel.

On my contents, I used two different fonts as I wanted it to have more of a welcoming feel to it but still make it urban. To do this, I used a font called 'Silom' which makes the writing fun and attractive to read without taking away the urban feel to it. The other font I used in my contents is callled 'Plane Crash'. I downloaded this one from a website called 'da font' http://www.dafont.com/. I did this as it has a fantastic look to it which immediately attracts the audience into reading it and it gives off a huge urban look to the whole page. On the double page spread, I stuck to the same fonts as I used on the contents due to the fact that too many fonts can confuse or put the audience off reading the rest of the magazine.

The double page spread problems

I was talking to my other teacher Mr.Jones today. He wanted to go through my double page spread with me and discuss and solve some issues with the two pages. The problems he raised were similar to Mr.Gallop's. The problems were:

• The blue banner is too big
• The picture of the band dancing looks like a snap shot
• Dead space
• The way the band mixes in with the background in the main picture

After we had discussed the problems, I started to solve some of them with some of his advise. These are the changes I made:

• I made the big blue banner smaller
• Edited the small picture and slanted it. I also put another one in with the same effects on it so it turned into a style and not a snapshot
• Added an extra column into the dead space
• I found another pciture exactly the same as the main picture above, apart from the surroundings aren't as bold. I am currently editing this

I will post the updated version of my double page spread as soon as I finish editing the main picture.