Evaluation of creating my foundation production

After planning and researching everything I needed in able to create my magazine, I started work on the programme Pages on the Mac. This gave me a great opportunity to make my magazine to the best of my ability.
I started on my front cover first. Knowing what I was going to create for it (using my final plan showed on the foundation portfolio blog) I worked straight away on finding a background. I used a checkered background I created on Pages, which used a lot of time. However I was happy with the finished product as it looked better than I had expected, and fitted well with the colour scheme I used throughout my magazine, which was red. My title featured across the whole width of the front cover, and using a red font, stood out from the checkered background. The photo I used was a great feature to my magazine, as it looked proffesionally shot (due to the stance of all perons in the photo) but was taken by me last year. I struggled at first to think of an image to fit my magazine, and struggled to think of what would look good, but I found this image and replaced the background (of which was a light background but had some detail in it) with a checkered background.
Secondly I moved onto creating my contents page. I used a black font on a red to fading white background, making the bold text stand out from the page. I used many photos that related to my articles, and the photos were placed near the relating article. The photos also included page numbers near them, to reassure the reader of what to expect in the artcile they wish to read. Although my contents page is not the fullest of my pages, I decided that I had included enough information on this page to satisfy the audience of my magazine.
Finally I created my double page spread, and I really decided to make this page very imformative and catching to the reader with colourful photos and the repeating colour scheme of red text and checkered background. My introduction to the article was written in red as a connotation to my readers that this should be read first, and although the intordution features on the busy checkered background, I feel as thouh it still stands out. My article features an interview type article, with the interviewer's questions written in red and the interviewee's answers written in black. This again is another simplistic feature to serparate the text, as well as keeping a formal structure without making the text to formal.