Evaluation

I personally think that my magazine has many if the same factors of a real magazine as the mast head is in the top left corner and consists of only three letters; 'LTD' this is short for 'Living the Dream' which would probably be too long for a mast head of a magazine. The original idea for the mast head was 'Fulfill' this idea came from the slogan but again I thought a shorter mast head would be more practical. The slogan was inspired from the mast head as was originally, the slogan is now 'Live up to you own expectations'  the reason behind this from the mast head as well is that only you can say what your dream is, therefore if you live up to your own expectations then you have succeeded. The fact that I have decided to use the college entrance as the cover photo was actually a risk as that's not something you often see on magazines you usually see a model. My reason for doing this is that I didn't want to aim it at any type of person, also,  so that the audience viewing the magazine can already see their 'Gateway to opertunity'.

At the side of the front cover it shows several pictures of some students doing the sort of things that they'd do everyday in college, these pictures also show determination to succeed in the thing you love to do the most because in every photo each student looks happy and is enjoying what they are doing. One of my models appears to be really sensible and mature and how parents think all students should be, this is a good device for parents to actually want their children to go there. However, the other student featured in the magazine isn't your average student, he appears to be a bit different and more laid back and he represents that not everything to do with college is hard work, that college parties are arranged. Most importantly, it represents that anyone can enroll in this college and everyone will be accepted by everyone else.

Considering the fact that the only students shown in the magazine are aged between 16 and 19 this is a good indication on the age range acceptable. If they were any older than this it the college would lose it's title as a sixth form college.

The audience is attracted to this magazine I think by the slogan, mainly because it says 'Live up to your own expectations' and teenagers love to be able to do their own thing because through school they're told what to do and this lets them know that after school it changes and they decide where they want to do now.

I think one of the biggest successes with my magazine is that the front cover and the contents page are closely linked because in some cases they look like they should be in two different magazines and I think it's important to be able to see some similarity between the two. What I found a bit challenging was to appeal to both the students and their parents, this matter was overcome by simply have a model for each type of audience.