Review Previous Student Work

In class we were split into groups to review previous student work.  Each group got a Front Cover, a Contents Page and a Double Page Spread from a previous student's work. While reviewing the work we had to consider what we liked about the work, what could be improved, what the magazine was inspired by and the demographic of the magazine.

The group I was in was given this magazine to review:

The first thing we noticed was the magazine's inspiration. This specific magazine was inspired by a Kerrang! issue. We also noticed that the genre for the magazine was easily recognised as a Rock magazine and this is shown through the colour scheme, the masthead, images used and the layout. These are also some of the generic conventions of the Rock magazine genre and the Rock genre in general. 

The main fault we had with this magazine is that the student had used the same model in each of the photos but just changed the costume. This makes the validity of the magazine questionable, because you wouldn't see a magazine on the shelf of a shop with only one model throughout the magazine. 

The only other problem we had with his front cover was his main cover line, that goes across the page like a banner. The cover line's font doesn't fit in with the magazine he wants to create, the cover line looks out of place on the front cover. The font should have been integrated into the rest of the magazine somehow to make it look like its apart of the same magazine.