Evaluation of my final front cover

Good points:

•  I have kept a consistent house style across all elements on the page, i.e. text colours, fonts.
•  I think i have used my main image to its advantage. I made sure i got a shot with eye contact so that when i positioned her on the page, she would have direct gaze for a reader, I also made sure her eyes were eye line on the page.
• Iv kept it simple with just two images but made sure they speak volumes, with the way i shot them and the text to explain what they are about.
• I used text boxes down my left third as on the shelfs in a shop thats what you'd see first as other mags may be on top of it, and the text boxes make it alot neater. I also made sure they were the same size.

Bad points:

• Although i think my magazine looks good with minimal pictures, on the other hand it could of benefitted with more as they could of been used to illustrate more stories happening in my magazine, to draw the audience in.
• I could of made Global Gathering on two seperate lines so that it would of looked neater on the page, as the way it is now, it sticks out a bit.
• I could of used more text on my front cover, for the same reason as the images- to highlight more key stories.
• I also could of used stroke around the image of the Plain Sailing boys in the bottom right hand corner as this would of made it stand out a bit better on the page.