Evaluation of the southbank guide

In order to work out a Southbank guide we decided to visit Southbank as a class, so we could know what attracts young people. We went all around the place asking information about the interests of the young people, taking photographs and collecting leaflets. The Southbank guide is all about events for people aged 16-19 years old, and as I am 16 I chose things that would interest me.

I decided my guide would be about skateboarding, graffiti, 4-D cinema, London Aquarium, art and the London Eye because I think they're the things young people are interested in and when we went to Southbank I saw that these things were more appreciated by young people. The first things I started working on were the images to put in, the text, the writing style and the colours.

After deciding the topics of the leaflet I looked at different layouts and thought about which would be better for my guide. First of all I experimented with "Illustrator", but after having some problems trying to modify the pictures I decided to use "Fireworks"because I was more familiar with it and I knew how to do whatever I needed to do. Fireworks was good, but it had to be printed out separately, which added to my work, but I can still say that it helped me a lot and it made my work easier.

The text is simple and straight forward: it gets to the main point without too many words.

The layout is simple and it has examples of the sponsored events.

According to the poll I did about my Southbank guide and to what people say, the guide is good.

Having a look at my guide I think I can say that all the information required is present and that the text goes straight to the point, but if I was given the opportunity to improve it I would change some things, for example, some colours of the text to make it easier and clearer to read.