Media Evaluation

Here is the link for 'other front covers' - http://bentibbitsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/analysis-of-magazine-front-covers.html#comment-form Here is the link for 'task' - http://bentibbitsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/codes-and-conventions-task.html#comment-form

Drafting and Planning: Final Draft Front Cover

Here is my final draft of my front cover. After much thought, I decided to cut the top part of the image where there was a building. This has made the image better. I have also added another cover line to improve the blankness. I am fond of this front cover. 

Drafting and Planning: Final Draft Contents Page

I have improved my contents page. I have added much more text, making it more acceptable as a weekly magazine with 67 pages. I have made the font much smaller, which was in order to fit the extra pages. I have added a tagline of 'This week in S&A'. I have made the page numbers more logical and they now work well. I have also changed the background into the same grey as the double page spread, which creates a consistent colour scheme. 

Drafting and Planning: Improvements for Contents Page

To improve my contents page I feel that I need to add more articles and pages to my magazine. I also need to make sure the page numbers are logical and make sense in reference to the rest of the magazine. I may also change the background colour as white is bland. I may make it the same colour as my improved double page spread, which is grey. I may also change the subscribe as it does not look particularly realistic.

Drafting and Planning: Final Draft Double Page Spread

Here is my improved double page spread. My inspiration came from this article about Graham Coxon. I have moved my pull quote and made it much bigger. I have changed the background colour to a light grey, as the blue was random and didn't match the colour scheme. I plan to change the contents to a grey background also. The colour of the font is green.  

Drafting and Planning: Double Page Spread Possible Improvement

I have changed some of my double page spread round. I thought that having the image on one side and the text on the other may be too simple so tried to cover the image over both pages. However, the text is placed randomly and the pull quote is randomly placed. It could work, if I improved it vastly. 

Drafting and Planning: Double Page Spread Improvements

To improve the double page spread I intend to possibly only have one pull quote. I may also use a lighter shade of blue and get rid of a question or two. I will move the quotes onto the other side, along will the text, and compress it more. I will also exclude the white on the text and just make it all black, as I feel it looks slightly silly. I will change the page numbers to the correct ones and make the best use of all the positives of my double page spread.