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.