Do you feel there is enough information presented on my magazine front cover?

Why you be intrested in this type of magazine

Do you feel my magazine is focused on a particular gender audience

VDo you feel my magazine stands out from other magazines?

Friday, 23 October 2009


Plan for front cover


Planning my college magazine

Name - Wyke Wizard
Main headline - Should we ban the rose gardens
Picture - Medium close up of student. reading a college magazine.
Other stories - First year's exams 2010, new buliding work to Ash, students: is there too much pressure on them ?

The main story on my magazine should grip the readers attentions and stand out giving a clear image of what my magazine is about

Planning my college magazine -


1.Pictures along one side of the page.
2.Page numbers on the opposite.
3.Clear font
4.Date and time
5.Details of the college at the bottom of the page.
6.The page numbers which should be easy to read

Why i did my contents page that way

I my contents page on desktop publisher. I chose a basic layout with both text and image on it , i tried to make it as simple as possible to reflect a college magazine and make it easy to ready and understand




Monday, 19 October 2009

LIIAR;
L-langauage
I-Ideology
I-Institutions
A-Audience
R-Respresentation

Friday, 16 October 2009

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Diffrences between a college and a normal magazine

  • College magazines are for a smaller audience usually
  • College magazines often dont charge for the magazine compared to normal magazines which do charge
  • Normal magazines often have a clebebrity on the front cover whilst college magazines usually have someone from the school or a image which is linked to the topic
  • Normall magazine have sponsors and advertisements compared to college magazines which do not have any sponsors and advertisements in there magazine

Conventions of a college contents page



Conventions of a college magazine contents page

Page numbers
Pictures
Mast head
Link with the audience
Volume or Issue number
Easy to read subheading

Conventions of a contents page

  • Conventions of the contents pages
  • House style
  • colour
  • font
  • layout
  • image style all similar to front cover and interior
  • Use of columns to “block”
  • Subheadings to divide contents into loose categories
  • Images anchored to copy
  • Audience considered

definition of a mood board

A mood board is a type of poster design that may consist of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition of the choice of the mood board creator. Designers and others use mood boards to develop their design concepts and to communicate to other members of the design team. The mood board may be used as a frame of reference during the design process.

Monday, 12 October 2009

Mood Board Example







Planning a collage magazine

These are all the planning i need to do to create a successful college magazine
  • Spider Diagrams
  • Mood Board
  • Sketch of the magazine
  • evaluation of sketch
  • do some more drafts
  • do a final draft
  • one original image

Friday, 9 October 2009

What i want to do for my college magazine

I have looked at other college magazines and i want to focus at sports in college and how they are a postive or negative influence on students college life

Monday, 5 October 2009

Codes And Conventions of a content page

  • picture
  • page numbers
  • advertisement
  • features
  • text
  • email
  • phone number
  • outline of main story
  • a welcoming
  • main title
  • subtitle
  • prize
  • competitions