College Life Magazine.

 In this front cover I have used one photo as both the background for the page and the main image. I chose this picture because it is portrait so was easier to fit into the page size and also it shows students at college which is essentially what the magazine is all about.

I called my magazine 'College Life' as it explains what the magazine will be about to the customer and I also made the masthead into the logo as well so it will be eye catching and recognisable on a newsagent's shelf.

The skyline at the top of the page attracts the customer's attention and so does the anchorage title.

Then I added in two sell lines related to the contents of the magazine to hopefully draw the customer in to buy the magazine.

I have also added four elements which every magazine should have; bar code, publishing date, issue number and price. These make the magazine look more realistic and professional. I priced my magazine at 50p as my questionnaire results concluded that most people wanted to pay less than £1 for the college magazine I was creating.

I used the programme 'Microsoft Publisher 2010' to create my magazine front cover and contents page as it was the best programme to apply to magazine making. One of the set colour schemes on the programme was called 'parrot' and it involved different shades of red, blue, green, purple, Indigo, grey and white. I chose this to be my colour scheme as my questionnaire results showed that more people wanted the magazine to be colourful than black and white and I thought these colours would be eye catching.

I carried this colour scheme into the contents page with the text and background.

I used five of my photos as this way I can show more of college life and these were the five that I liked best. They are different shots including mid shots and long shots.

I used one image of students going up the stairs, and another of them going down because I liked the symmetry.

I created ten different pieces of content for my magazine which seemed appropriate to my questionnaire results and I coloured them alternately so as it would be easier to see which page number applied to each section.

I have used the font 'Berlin Sans FB' throughout these pages because I liked it and thought it was appropriate for a college magazine. Also I titled the contents page 'In this issue' instead of 'contents' because I thought it would be a bit different form other college magazines and seemed a bit more personal and less static.

 

Maybe if I were to make the magazine again I would come up with a more imaginative name for it and add some page numbers to the sell lines so the customer would know which page to turn to for the article they are interested in.