Research and Planning-Evaluation of College Magazine

On my college magazine front cover, I have included a many features of a magazine front cover. I have included a masthead which was in big, blue writing as "YOUR CLARENDON." My college magazine front cover also consists of a slugline which is situated under the masthead telling the audience of the issue and what date the magazine was produced. Stories are also included in my college magazine front cover aswell as the price and the barcode. I also included a medium close up so I have included the basics of a college magazine front cover.
However there are disadvantages to my college magazine front cover as from the audiences point of view, because I have used completely different colours for my front cover and contents page, viewers wouldn't think that they belong to the same magazine. I also think that the picture that I have taken is a bit plain in the background. You could argue if it follows the three colour rule because it consists mainly of the colours green, blue and red but there are other colours included because of the background colour of my image. Another positive that I could add is that to viewers the stories seem interesting and are appropriate. They would interest a different range of people and include the social side of college and and the working side of college. Another negative by looking at my contents page is that it doesnt include a page number so the reader wouldn't know what page it is displayed on.
To sum up, there are a wide range of positives and negatives on my front cover and contents page. For my music magazine, I think that that i need to concentrate a lot on my choice of colours and to choose colours which would go well with each other.