My Evaluation

I was given a preliminary task to do. My assigned task was to create a front cover and contents page with a target audience relating to school life, whether it was sixth form life or start high school life. I had to come up with a title that would attract my target audience. As I went along, I learnt a lot and realised how hard it is. Unfortunately, I encountered a few problems but were solved efficiently in the end.

Firstly, my task was to draw a flat plan of both my front cover and contents page of how it would look. This had to be a detailed flat plan which included whether my mast-head would be serif or sans serif. It also included to of the two colour contrasting colours I would use, which picture would be my main picture, the layout, the font of the texts, the price.

My next step was to get familiar with photoshop. As I have never used photoshop before, it was quite difficult for the first week as everything was very complicated! Downloading photoshop at home and getting used to the tools and the layout, helped me a lot with my front cover and contents page.

Photo time! My next task was to start taking pictures. This was another difficult task for me as I have never used a proffessional before, so it took me a bit of time to get used to it. The part of this task was thinking of ways in which I could get snapshots of students as I wanted my front cover and contents page to be unique. After taking the pictures and getting used to the camera, it was time to upload the pictures and see which ones would be effective for my magazine and which ones wouldn't. Eventually, I came up with the two pictures that would be my main pictures for my front cover and contents page.

Time to get down to work. After deciding which two pictures I would keep, it was time to start producing my front cover. I experienced a few problems with the masthead and spent most of my time on my front cover. I had many problems with my masthead because I had to use a font that would attract my target audience. This took me a while to achieve, But I eventually came up with the perfect masthead! My original idea to make the 'A' in 'A-Chance' to be enlarged and for the 'Chance' to be slanted on the 'A'. However, this didn't appeal to my target audience as it was hard to read.

As my front cover took most time during the whole task, it eventually got done. So, it was now time to start producing my contents page.

Colour Scheme

I've changed my colour scheme back to the original two contrasting colours - red and black. This is because although green and red contrast well together, the green stands out a bit too much. However, I wasn't sure whether I could do this, so I asked permission from my teacher. She agreed and gave me permission to do so.

Change of name..

My title at the beginning was "Manor Timez" but I then changed it to A-Chance. I got the idea from 'A-Levels' but replaced the 'Levels' with a 'Chance'. This is because 'Manor Timez' wasn't short and snappy like my current title is.

Colour Clash

An important part of my magazine is the colour scheme. Two colours have to be contrasting well in order for my magazine not to look professional and organised. As my magazine is aimed at NMBEC sixth form students, I thought black and red would go well together as red represents Norbury Manor. Unfortunately, red and black was already chosen by another student. To solve this problem, I had to go onto google and find a colour wheel. This would help me to choose two contrasting colours that go well together. I came up with the two contrasting colours of red and green.