By Emily Tickner 12L

Evaluation Of my School Magazine

Masthead:Used the text tool to

type, I changed the font and colour with the task bar that expanded from

the text tool.

Feature article Photo:

I uploaded this from my camera and

resized it to fit an A4 page. The photo is of

a school student in the library, this is

relevant to one of my main articles in the

magazine.

Cover line:I used the text tool

to write this, I changed the

typography with the task bar.

Tone & Mode of Address:

I chose to make the magazine look

sophisticated with the use of the feature article photo yet

informative with the use of different punctuation and simple cover lines.

Style:I made the magazine for easy reading that is interesting for the

students of the school.

If I were to do the project again what would I do to improve it?

• I would make the magazine more eye catching and colourful to draw the buyers attention to my magazine.

• I would use different conventions on my front cover so that it is more interesting, like the Q magazine and other magazines that are already out for purchase.

• I could make a specific colour scheme that will run throughout my magazine and have a meaning.

• I would select my feature article photo to fit a category of the tone I want to give to my audience, I will pose the character to fit a criteria.

• I could connote more with the difference of my feature article photo and my text.

Bright colours

Masthead

Different typography

Geometric shapes

Typography: The text and colour

scheme are the same as that of the front cover,

this increases the professionalism of the

magazine.

School Logo:Used to make a link

between the magazine and the demographic of the magazine, the logo is recognisable for the

readers.

House Style:I’ve used different cases of text, some upper and

lower cases spread around the page when

it is needed, I have used informal language and

excessive use of punctuation to

emphasise the articles.

Page Numbers:Main articles are

highlighted on this page with their page

numbers for quick reference.

Article Info:Short paragraphs

describing what’s in the article on that particular

page.

If I were to do the project again what would I do to improve it?

• I could include more articles and a wider overview of pages in the magazine.• I could also include pictures that relate to the articles in order to fill negative

space.• The use of a different colour scheme in order for the magazine to be more

appealing to a wider group of pupils from the school.• I could include articles that will attract different types of groups from the school,

such as the novelty geeks, ‘it’ group, nerds etc.• Advertisements would make for good space users and will attract the readers to

different areas of the magazine, people are more likely to buy a magazine if they get what they want from it.

• I should fit the text properly so that it is legible for all readers, it cannot be too small or stretched.

The select and move tool is what I used to

arrange the structure of my magazine.

The transparency tool enables you to select a

colour and erase it from the image on the screen. I however did not use this tool to make my school

magazine.

The text tool allowed to type the words on my magazine, from

this tool you can change the font and colour of the text,

along with the size.

The zoom tool is useful when doing detailed work on

photoshop, you can zoom in and out of the views.

The pipette tool lets you choose a specific colour that’s on the screen, I didn’t use this tool in my school magazine though.

This tool enables you to choose what colour you’re using and

you’re able to easily change this colour.

This is the lasso tool, it allows you to select round

an object on the image and delete it, move it or delete what’s outside the selected

object.

This tool allows you to crop around an image, it is not a complex tool

however.

The erase tool has different sizes which allows you to control what you erase.

This tool makes simple shapes to place onto

your image.