How i constructed the FrontPage and Contents Page

In order to construct my FrontPage the first thing that i did is that i done a research to find out what my audience would like to see inside their college magazine, this is what made me decide what was going to be in my magazine. Then i gave out my surveys to various of people, after I got surveys back i drew up the results into graphs so that it is easier for me to see what i should put in my magazine. Then i done 10 different Front Cover drafts to help give me ideas on what my Front cover should look like. After choosing the draft i wanted my FrontCover to look like, i went onto the computer and used a software called Adobe Photoshop. In this programme i opened the medium-close up shot that i took ealier on and i started editing this image so that the skin tone was level and that spots and moles were removed. After editing my image i started using the text tool to start entering text. I used a big size font to write my Masthead and a smaller size to write my cover lines. After entering all the text my FrontCover was done.

In my frontcover i have three strengths and these are:
1) The Masthead is well designed and its big enough so that it is eas and clear to read. This means that the masthead is very visible.
2)The Medium-close up shot that i took matched the standards of the medium close up shot that i was supposed to take.
3)I used good coverlines, this helps attract readers to read the magazine.

My frontcover also has its weaknesses and these are:
1) The Model in my picture looks to serious and he should cool down a little and look more natural as if hes happy to be taken a photo of.
2) The Font colour used is to bright so that the text is harder to read.
3)The Font size of some coverlines are to small so its hard to read.

In Order to construct my contents page i had to do 3 drafts to help me decide which one i was going to choose. After deciding which 1 i was going to use i used photoshop to create a background then started entering text and pictures. After doing this i used Adobe illustrator to create a shape so that i can use it in my contents page. Once this was all done my contents page was done.

The strengths of my contents page are:
1)The design of it is nice with the faddy background.
2)Easy to read.
3)Good use of images

The Weaknesses of my contents page are:
1)The contents page is to plain
2)Contents page is not attractive
3)Another image should have been added of the college.