Evaluation

The title we decided to use was 'Result' which we feel denotes a positive attitude and success in attending college. We used sans serif for the title because it showed an informal feel to the magazine fitting the relevant target audience. The block lettering is bold and eye catching.
    We chose to use a pricing label on the front cover boldly showing the audience a clear indication to how little it costs (equal to the value of a fizzy drink), which may be considered good value only amounting to £1. Our choice of story lines covers a variety of pertinent issues that may be experienced by young people of the age group that attends college, ranging from learning to drive, cool fashions and entertainment. A competition was advertised on the cover to give the reader an incentive to purchase the magazine and hence may in fact help towards their study if they were successful in winning the Apple Mac Laptop. 
    The image we chosen was a young, fresh faced, healthy and vibrant girl with a slightly radical twist blowing bubble gum may be appealing to a younger audience making them relate to the image. The overall look of the cover is well balanced, colourful and may even appeal to both genders although the target market may tend to be female as we used mainly bright colours for the cover lines. 

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.