What Makes a Good School Magazine.
There are various aspects of a magazine that make it a good, appealing product. As an exercise before making our preliminary product we need to look at good and bad examples.
The cover to the left, I feel, is a bad example. You should never really use more than two colours, and not only has this cover used a variety of different colours the colours also clash. The over use of sell lines makes it seem amature and immature and by having an inconsistent font it creates a confusing affect and will turn off the consumer. The cover above, "Parent And School" I like. The image looks professional and although they have used three colours, these are consistently used throughout the magazine. However I feel the sell lines at the bottom ruin the cover because they've deliberately put them in a black box which is too over powering and could have been done in a much more affective way. 
The cover to the right has one of the main generics of any media product. The people on the front are beautiful. Although the cover does appear almost boring an empty, because the two people in the picture would be thought by many to be good looking, more people will be drawn to it. 
I feel the sell lines at the bottom ruin the cover because they've deliberately put them in a black box which is too over powering and could have been done in a much more affective way.
ReplyDeleteYes - good points. WOBs (White-On-Black, meaning white text on a black background) should be used sparingly and rarely on a front page - especially on a mag. Makes it look gloomy.
Also, look at the random caps used - The Science on Engergy Smart Schools. As a rule, don't cap up common nouns.
Sometimes you can use 'trendy' lower-case letters for proper nouns - but that tends to be a house-style semantic.