contents mock up

front cover mock up

my brief and college magazine research

My name is Jodie Wright and im studing AS Media at bramcote hills sixth form,
firstly were doing a preliminary exercise, using a desktop publishing program & an image manipulation program! To produce the front page of a new college magazine, fearturing a photograph of student in medium close-up & laid -out the text+masthead appropriately.
      For my main task im using the DTP ( Desktop Publishing) & an image manipulation program to produce the front page , contents & double page spread of a new music magazine.
                        
                                               My College Magazine Research

The main image on the front of this magazine is aloud of little picture mixed into one, some plain some with pictures on . This is effective because your eyes drawn towards the front page therefore making you look at the information it has to offer also by making the colours quite bright, its make likely to appeal to there target audience teenagers +.

The masthead is simple but still gets your attention from how it stands out from the back ground, its not at bold title such as THE COLLEGE ISSUE, with little rips and tears to make it im-complete , gives it more of a ruff look then sophisticated which most 16+ don't look for as they've been sock in a school environment and want to break away from it.
The lay out , the graphic effects are riped out bit of paper that meant to have the same effect of text bubble .They've made the text bubbles yellow so the information stands out to all the rest of the cover but they haven't used no arrows or collums or placed any information on the front to so people dont no what the magazine is like inside. They havent really used direct address words but kind of have in how the whole cover is presented, they used bright colours,pictures of young people& picture of a target to symbolise the people at there college hiting there goal which suits both females& males audience's that wants to be succuessful .
The colour scheme, pink's, blue's,green's,yellow,s voilet & white . These colours are used every carefuly to create a balance to attract both sex'es to look at the magazines.

The masthead 'ridgewater college' is white plain and simple which would appeal to more of the parent side of the college world . The main image is a girl sat down in a chair smiling ,sat next to a world global . This covers the whole of front cover . This gives people the impression that its a good place as people are happy but also getting the education they want , all parents want there children to be happy and do well so this would get the right attention that the college is aiming for. The anchorage text . 'GLOBAL LEARNING' is in big bold write to make it stand out because by using the words 'global learning' shows they give a very good education and are multicultural &ethically balanced. There's a slogan on the cover but its to blury for me to see. they ave not used a strapline, price, bar code or skyline.The sell lines ' specail insert!' & underneth '2009 viewbook' gives people hints of whats inside the magazine. this magazine has no bar code or really a colour scheme expect for for the words are in blue and white. The layout they have used one box to put a picture and text in it to make it standout from the rest of the page but in shapes and all the writting are the same not slanted and gives it more of a sophisticated look like more educated look.

The masthead 'college sports' is big bold and yellow with draws your eyes towards there for getting your attention and hitting it aim , the skyline runs cross the top of the masthead in bold white writting 'our 1996 summer olympics preview' which is very effective as its a simple way of giving you information. The anchorage text is ' the sure thing' in great big graphty writing using the colour a yellow , purple and white. This appeals to the audience there trying to attracted young teenage lads. Bar code to show that it is sold in shops. The sell lines apply to a college audience.

 

 

The colours are mainly black and yellow and white as that makes everything stand out from the background, therefore making the images and the main masterhead 'contents' the main thing you see. The images are places that would instress students to going and the picutres link in with the information. the font is bold and white . the places like names of resturants and places are more bolder that shows its more imporant so people know what the smaller print is about underneth. The sale lines are different fonts to the rest of the writting witch makes them easier to read as there small. The layout is simple but eye catching as each image has a section of text next to it also there is an image along the top of the page witch catches the audiences eyes.

The colours aare mainlly white, black & blue witch catches the audiences eye as the blue stands out compared to the other colours and also link together well together and with the images. Theres 3 images on this page of people playings sport as basklet ball obviously a sport at the college and they take up the main space on the page and also the main things you see on the page. When you look at the images you automatically know what the magazine will be about, and the colours in the images link in with the colour scheme of the page.

The font is plain and clear , the mian subjects are in blue so you know what the writting underneths about. The layout is simple , just the masthead in bold and the images round the sides.