Him. Magazine

We were given a week to create a magazine in groups. The members of our group consisted of: Ben, Helena, Michael, Anna, Nick, Rebecca, Alex and myself.

We all had individual roles within the completion of the magazine:
Ben: Music - Top 5 Songs
Helena: Editor and Fashion
Michael: Sports article
Anna: Health and fitness - later changed to sexual facts
Nick: Game review
Rebecca: co-editor
Alex: Game - influential games
Myself; Technology article

We looked through a variety of magazines too understand how we needed our articles to look. We focused on mainly magazines targeted at men because our audience for our magazine was 16-19 year old males.
We called out magazine Him. and our front cover was a photo of the four boys in  our group. We took it inside the college because that would show that our audience was their age range/and college students. The back cover was all the boys in the same position but from behind. The photos were then taken to Photoshop and edited by Helena.
We had 6 articles based on different topics: Technology: Iphone 6 is it really worth the money?, Game: Top  most influential games and Shadow of Mordor game review (This was our main article), Music: Top 5 songs of this month, Sport: England vs San Marino, Health: Health and fitness with Dr.Wilson and Fashion: This season's fashion inspiration.
The health article however was changed into sexual facts and the fashion article did not make it into the magazine because the completion did not meet the deadline this was because this article was being written by the same person who was the editor for the covers of our magazine.

My article was about technology and the Iphone 6: Is it worth the money? I feel the article worked well because after looking at what I did before and after a big change is obvious. In my final article I made sure that everything was more interesting and different. I made the background of my article look like an Iphone but the layout of the page stayed the same as everyone else's with the blue bar behind the title and the blue writing for the subheading.

What went well:
 I think that we all worked really well as a group and helped each other out on the design so that the layout on every page looked the same. We also ensured the font was the same. All the pages included a picture/s so that they wouldn't look boring and our titles were made large and appealing. I think the final magazine defiantly  linked with our audience because it didn't look too upper-class.

What could be improved:
I think that all our articles would have been completed it we hadn't spent so long on our magazine name on the first lesson. We should have added a contents page and some advertisements to give the magazine a more completed realistic feel. Overall we could have worked quicker as a group when deciding fonts etc. so articles could have been completed earlier.