Final magazine evaluation NEED TO CHANGE DATE ON CONTENTS PAGE

This is my finished magazine, for the magazine I used the program Adobe InDesign CS3. For my coursework I had to create a regional magazine that was aimed at and based in London, it had to be focused on entertainment. I ensured that it was focused on London through using an up and coming music artist from London and clearly stating this on the front page. The audience for this magazine is generally people who are above the age of 13 to about 35, this obviously does not mean that other people cannot read the magazine but the general audience that the magazine is aimed at is people aged between 13 and 35. The first good thing about the final draft of the front page is that there is not a lot of content on the front page for the reader to bogged down in, the fact that the text doesn't take away the spotlight from the image is good since one of the main topics in the magazine is the music artist in the image. The reason why this suits my audience is because my audience in particular want something to catch their eye instantly, and because everybody is always rushing about in London they aren't really going to have time to read lots of things on the front page, this is why I chose to make the image the main item of the front page. Secondly I have included a range of different fonts and font colours, this is so that the front page did not look bland, I wanted to add some variety to the page, this suits my audience because as I have said above my audience want something and need something that will immediately catch their attention otherwise they will not pick the magazine up. the third thing that is good about my front cover is the masthead, it is a unique masthead and looks professional, the slogan at the bottom of the masthead also adds to the design of the masthead and gives it some more character.

This is the final draft of my contents page. The first good thing about it is, again like the front page, there is not a lot of detailed text, it is only the important information that people need to know so that they can find their favoured topics, even though there is one block of text in the middle of the page which is the editors notes. The second thing that is good about the contents page is that it keeps to the house style of the magazine, it is similar to the front page in terms of the colour of fonts that it uses, also the main heading is similar to the masthead on the front page with the bevel effect use on it

This is the final draft of my double page spread. I really like this double page spread and the fact that the image that I have used is not even a single image, they were two separate images and I merged them together on the page. The first thing that is good about the double page spread is the way the text is arranged and the way that it fits around the text. The second thing that I think is good about the double page is that again like the front page and content page it is simplistic, so it appeals to my target audience because I think that my target audience would not like the pages of the magazine to be too busy in terms of how many different things are on the page. Although even though the page is simplistic it is not boring.