East riding magazine
Unlike the Grimsby institute magazine, this front cover does not work very well because the denotation is the picture of students in Berlin during winter. However the front cover says the magazine is for spring not winter which suggests the front cover was rushed and not very well thought out. The connotations of winter are cold and snowing (which it is on the front cover picture) which contradict the spring date of this magazine.The picture also has a page number on it and looks alot like something from the contents page, it's also a fairly dark photo with little bits of white in it which isn't very eye catching or attractive. This magazine also has the price on the front cover which looks professional however the price says free which in my opinion gives the whole magazine a cheap feel instantly, although the price is a convention of a magazine, when it's free there doesn't really have to be text saying it and it could be un-priced. Also, the main headline and the rest of the text is all the same colour which makes the name of the magazine look less eye catching than it should and takes attenion away from the name of the magazine which isn't a good feature in my opinion. Despite a fairly unsuccesful front cover, the colours of the magazine work well and are easily read because of a good contrast in colour. The name of the college in the bottom right hand corner looks good in my opinion but would have had a greater impact if they would have used a different colour such as the green used for the contents page so it stood out and you know who had made it as well as keeping a house style through both the contents page and front cover. There isn't much text to attract the reader on the first page apart from the masthead which shows that they haven't thought about the language in this magazine very well because there isn't much going on on the front page too get the reader's attention. When looking at this front cover it seems as though the college has no character because of the boring black and white house colours, this could have been utilized more effectively by using a better colour scheme to show the college in a better light. I think there's a clear message behind this front cover which is to inform everyone to do with the college about what they do to educate their students (e.g going on a trip to Berlin) which represents the magazines ideology although this picture represents Berlin to be dull and boring and would put me off going on trips there in that weather because of the way it's presented on the front cover.
Although I disliked the front cover of this magazine I think the contents page was well thought out and designed. It looks a lot more well planned than the front cover and you can clearly see the diference in the amount of time spent on each page. I like the pictures taken out of a few pages from the contents page which looks good and works well although the page number on the picture somwhere would have made it far more easy to distinguish what the picture was about and what page it was taken from. The only other criticism is that some of the text next to the page number is made smaller and squashed up to fit it on with the page number which ruins the effect of the list with all the names and location of stories in the magazine. The layout and colour scheme is effective but I think the green should have been used somewhere on the front cover aswell to in keep with the house style. Also, a few of the pictures were blurry which didn't look professional and wasn't as easy as the front page cover to see.Overall I think this magazine is not up to as good standard as the Grimsby institute one which contained a banner head and had more information to link you further into the college than this magazine
Unlike the Grimsby institute magazine, this front cover does not work very well because the denotation is the picture of students in Berlin during winter. However the front cover says the magazine is for spring not winter which suggests the front cover was rushed and not very well thought out. The connotations of winter are cold and snowing (which it is on the front cover picture) which contradict the spring date of this magazine.The picture also has a page number on it and looks alot like something from the contents page, it's also a fairly dark photo with little bits of white in it which isn't very eye catching or attractive. This magazine also has the price on the front cover which looks professional however the price says free which in my opinion gives the whole magazine a cheap feel instantly, although the price is a convention of a magazine, when it's free there doesn't really have to be text saying it and it could be un-priced. Also, the main headline and the rest of the text is all the same colour which makes the name of the magazine look less eye catching than it should and takes attenion away from the name of the magazine which isn't a good feature in my opinion. Despite a fairly unsuccesful front cover, the colours of the magazine work well and are easily read because of a good contrast in colour. The name of the college in the bottom right hand corner looks good in my opinion but would have had a greater impact if they would have used a different colour such as the green used for the contents page so it stood out and you know who had made it as well as keeping a house style through both the contents page and front cover. There isn't much text to attract the reader on the first page apart from the masthead which shows that they haven't thought about the language in this magazine very well because there isn't much going on on the front page too get the reader's attention. When looking at this front cover it seems as though the college has no character because of the boring black and white house colours, this could have been utilized more effectively by using a better colour scheme to show the college in a better light. I think there's a clear message behind this front cover which is to inform everyone to do with the college about what they do to educate their students (e.g going on a trip to Berlin) which represents the magazines ideology although this picture represents Berlin to be dull and boring and would put me off going on trips there in that weather because of the way it's presented on the front cover.
Although I disliked the front cover of this magazine I think the contents page was well thought out and designed. It looks a lot more well planned than the front cover and you can clearly see the diference in the amount of time spent on each page. I like the pictures taken out of a few pages from the contents page which looks good and works well although the page number on the picture somwhere would have made it far more easy to distinguish what the picture was about and what page it was taken from. The only other criticism is that some of the text next to the page number is made smaller and squashed up to fit it on with the page number which ruins the effect of the list with all the names and location of stories in the magazine. The layout and colour scheme is effective but I think the green should have been used somewhere on the front cover aswell to in keep with the house style. Also, a few of the pictures were blurry which didn't look professional and wasn't as easy as the front page cover to see.Overall I think this magazine is not up to as good standard as the Grimsby institute one which contained a banner head and had more information to link you further into the college than this magazine
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