Looking at previous years work.

Looking at previous years work at my college, there are a number of things that I can learn from them.
Firstly and most importantly, I can see what the examiners look for in a piece of work, and I can then utilize this to my advantage. I can then see why that person got the grade they did by what work they did. Then I can see what kind of quality the examiner is looking for and then make my work have the same kind of quality or professionalization. Other things I could learn from previous years work is what fonts work well with different styles of magazines. I could learn what type of image suit different styles of magazines and I can learn from their mistakes too.
There is one persons work from last year in particular that I had a few inspirations from. They had a bar across the bottom of the front cover which had images inside them, this was in my draft front cover, but unfortunatley I was unable to make it look proffesional enough to make it into my magazine. They had big writing for the title of the double page spread too, It looked really good, and I thought that it would work well in my magazine, provided I changed the colours and the words as well. then I had to change the layout of it. Nevertheless, It inspired me to make my own, in a similar fashion to the work of the student of the previous year.