1. College Magazine Analysis

2. Front Cover
• My front cover for ‘New Things’ is my second
attempt, my first front cover looked
completely different and it was just an
ordinary college magazine; I wasn’t happy
with my cover image or how the cover lines
were positioned, I felt as though I could do
better, so I deleted it and started all over
again, with a new idea, a new image and a new
name. I feel happy with my final front cover,
and I believe that deciding to delete my old
front cover and to start again, was a good
idea. My inspiration for my front cover was
‘Vogue’ magazine.

3. Front Cover
What works well on my front cover is the link
between the cover image and ‘Oh, So Vintage’,
this is my leading story, although it isn’t
placed in the conventional place, the reader would
be able to place a clear link between the cover
image and the leading story.
Also, I believe
that having my
masthead and
cover lines in
the same font,
and colour makes
them stand out
and look unified.

4. • My inspiration for my leading line was from
the Lana Del Rey edition of ‘Vogue’
magazine. I also got my colour scheme from
this edition as well as it shows simple
colours work well together. Although,
‘Vogue’ is full of cover lines, mine is
minimalistic, I went for the more is less
version, which I think is what makes my
magazine look good.

5. The easiest part of creating my front cover was From this task I have learnt that coming up with
taking the photograph to use for my main image, an idea of a magazine and actually creating it,
however even this had it’s problems. I had to are two different things, by this I mean, coming
find the right background, and style my model to up with an idea is a very simple task, but
look the correct way I wanted her look; When I creating it and making it come alive is time
later looked at the photo’s on the computer, I consuming and difficult.
realised that none of them were any good, so we Also I have learnt how to use Photoshop in a lot
then had to retake most of the photographs. more detail, before I created my magazine, I had
The hardest part was making the front cover look very basic knowledge of Photoshop, but now after
the way I had visualised in my mind, processing my completing my magazine, I feel as though I know a
thoughts onto Photoshop was harder than I thought lot more than I did before, and my front cover can
it would be, because I hadn’t previously used show this.
Photoshop to create a magazine. For example,
pushing my masthead behind the model’s head; I
thought this would be a simple task, of placing
the mast head layer, below the main image, when in
actual fact, I had to cut and copy the model’s
head, and then line it up correctly with the image
below, and then rearranging the layers.

6. Contents Page
I think what works best on my contents page
is the main image, and how my stories are
split into categories. By doing this, my
contents page looks organised and is easy
to find what the reader is looking for.
However, what perhaps doesn’t look as good
is all the white space on the page. I kept to
the minimalistic look, and although it looked
good on my front cover, it doesn’t look as
good on my contents page.
I chose to do a double page spread as I would
have more space to put things, and I’d be
able to make things stand out, and create a
statement, which is what fashion is all
about, but I think this idea didn’t turn out
too well when put to paper as I didn’t come
up with enough stories to fill enough of the
page.

7. Just like my front cover, I used ‘Vogue’ layout as my inspiration for my contents page. I think looking
at mine, you can tell. I used the idea of the image, and the split categories from ‘Vogue’ as I think
they make the contents page look neat, I think using an image is connotes that the magazine, is a fashion