Media index page evaluation

Our task was to create an index page for our school magazine, we also needed to include a suitable picture and the articles that are going to be in the magazine.

The target audience for my index page is the same as the front cover as I want the Sixth Form students to find it interesting and make them want to buy the magazine. The index page will appeal to the audience as I have used an image of Sixth Form students, this will show that the magazine is aimed at their age range. The story behind the index page is to show the reader what articles will be featured throughout the magazine. This will make the reader want to decide whether the articles will interest them or not which will produce their final decision on whether they want to buy the magazine or not.

In preparation for the index page we looked at a variety of magazine index pages to see how they are put together. We also looked at Glamour magazines which are targeted towards females, the index page has a main image which is the main part, it covers at least half of the page.  We also looked at school magazines online to see what the conventions were and whether they would be suitable for our index or not.

I used the same coloured font on my index page so it follows a suitable house style. I have used a different font style for the articles as this will draw the reader’s attention and they can easily pick out the article that they want to read. For the index page I used Photoshop, this was difficult as I have never really used Photoshop in depth before. Because of this I didn’t know many of the effects or how to use them. Therefore, I used the basic editing techniques such as blur and looked at a variety of websites on how to style font and manipulate images.

From creating this index page I now have a better understanding on how to use some of the effects within Photoshop. The editing process was long as I decided to watch tutorials on how to use the different effects.