Evaluation

We decided to call our magazine 'RESULT' which we feel denotes a positive attitude and it also links in with the fact it is a collage magazine and links in with A levels and getting results. We also feel its gives off the feeling of success and achieving something. It look a lot of time thinking about the fonts to use and after looking at other magazines targeted towards this age group we decided to use sans serif  mainly for the title because it gives off the impression that its not a formal magazine, we wanted this feeling because everything at college tends to be formal and after looking at texts books ect all day we  just wanted something you want to pick up and read. The title was in block capitals and in pink, we did this so it stood out against the green background and caught peoples eye. 
Our choice of story lines revolve around collage life and this specific age group. We thought that the "Learning to drive?" cover line really caught the readers attention and buy asking a question we where involving the audience. We also chose to use the learner driver plate as the L, we thought this appealed to our target audience as most of them will be starting to learn how to drive this year. We also used other cover lines related to students, covering topics like fashion, university, student discount and entertainment.
 A competition was advertised on the cover to give the reader an incentive to purchase the magazine, the prize for winning the competition was an Apple Mac Book. We chose this as a prize because a lot of students want these to help with there studies and also for recreational use. 
On the front cover there is also the price of the magazine, we chose to price it cheap so that it would cover the costs of printing if this magazine was to be published and also we feel that £1.00 is not a big ask for a magazine. 
The image we chose to use was a girl the same age as our target market blowing a bubble we feel it showed that even if where at collage we are still young it also connotes happiness but with a cheeky twist. I feel the overall look of the cover is fun, colourful and would appeal to both genders. We chose to use a range of colours for the cover lines so that it didn't tend to appeal to one gender over the other.
Lastly improvements i would make to our magazine. If we where to produce this magazine again i would not make the model on the photo so orange. I feel that we messed with the saturation a little too much resulting in her looking orange and not realistic. I would also add a few more cover lines so that the customer can see more of what the magazine has to offer. 

Finished Products

This is our front cover finished 

This is our layout for our contents page 

Images

It took us quite a while to get the right shot because when blowing a bubble you cannot choose the face pulled, we wanted a determined look to connote a passion for success. We tried a variety of people to make sure we got the right image, we also tried inside and outside for different lighting.

Evaluation of research and ideas for our magazine

After researching into multiple college magazines we noticed common features that was in a large quantity of the college themed magazines. We noticed that all magazines aimed at students used a sans serif font because it connotes a more informal approach. So we decided to use both however our masthead the main focus is sans serif. We also decided on our cover lines because most college magazines had things about lifestyle on the front so we decided to do the same using things like university and driving licences as these are common things in a students life. The cover picture we used is very fun and welcoming which we felt fitted the magazine. Although most student magazines were full of studying information we felt most students would like to read about fashion as well so one of our cover lines were based on fashion. One of our cover lines was 'Top 5 Student Bars' we chose this because most students enjoy to spend time with their friends in a fun environment so we feel this would be a successful selling point as we are understanding the students needs. The last cover line we chose was a competition to win a high quality laptop, with this it gives students that may not be able to afford a laptop the chance to win one. The name of our magazine was 'Result' we chose this because most other college magazines are focused around studying or lifestyle so we think result gives a focus on what the students are working towards, results.