evaluation of my front page final cover

My college magazine,W.O.W uses the familiar main conventions of a real magazine, it has a masthead/title of the magazine what is the biggest and brightest text on the product to make it stand out so people remember the name. It includes photographs what link back to magazine genre, and its headlines which are also conventions of a familar magazine. It doesn’t have the normal convention of having a barcode on my magazine because as it is a free magazine it doesn’t need one I took the familar image of the masthead to be in the left hand cornor,and did the same on my magazine. My college magazine primary representation is netball players who are female and students at Wyke College. But the secondary representation is students at Wyke or anybody who’s interested in sport, or reading about what is on our headline covers. Mainly females are represented though because of my selected photo’s. The social groups it represents are middle class SEG C1-e.The audience for my college magazine is females and males, because it has stories to interest both genders although they is a female on the front. Students at Wyke college are both females and males maybe I should of showed this more on the front cover, but I tried my best to on the headlines, and what colours I used in the house style.I tried to attract my audience by putting headlines on for both gender’s and using the colour blue for males, blue traditionally connotate boys and also symbolizes serenity and infinity. I also used the colour red/pink for the females because these colours traditionally connotate females it also connotates courage and love. The uses of these bright colours should also attract any audience and catch their eye.I have learnt that technologies don’t always help on how you have planned a product to be, you can have the idea in your head, but sometimes it is not possible to create it on adobe Photoshop. You can not always count on technology to help you. Every time I do a product on Photoshop I need some help, but hopefully I will get use to this each time I get set a task, then I will be able to make my set products more professional.

If I was to do this again I would do more planning and think of better ways to show who my audience are, and think of more over the top catchy headline’s.