Planning and ideas for college magazine

My preliminary task was to create a front cover and a contents page for a new school magazine using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I also used Microsoft word to create my draft for my front cover and contents page.

This is my final design for my front cover school magazine. The first thing I needed to do was to create my blog where I would be presenting all my creative work.  The second thing I had to was to come with a name, cover lines, selling lines, and target audience for my front cover.

College Magazine Ideas

Masthead:

·         Student dreams

·         PROUD

·         Aim high

·         Dreams

·         Believe

·         The Refined

I did not choose any of these mast headings because most of these headings have already been used by other students and I wanted mine to be different so I decided to look up the word Educated in the thesaurus and I chose the word ‘Cultivated’. ‘Cultivated’ means educated or refine. I used the name ‘Cultivated’ because it’s short and yet simple also memorable.

Cover lines:

·         Student shock - Rise in university tuition fees by £9000

·         Open days – get information on upcoming open days at your university

·         Uniform day

·         Revision tips- how to get on top of your revision  

·         Nus Extra- Discounts in all your favourite shops

·         Halloween – Trick or Treat give me something good to eat

·         UCAS- difficulties with your ucas application? Get help now

·         Take the stage- How talented are you

·         Black History Month

·         Oscars –Find out who won

I only selected eight cover lines from my ideas because having all ten on my front cover will be too much as I just want my front cover too look simple and not over crowed with words and also because I wanted to picture to be seen without the cover lines detracting from it too much.

Target audience:

·         Students 16-19 year old

Selling lines:

·         Plan for success

·         Desire to learn

·         Limit is the sky

·         Student resource of the month

Others components:

·         Barcode

·         Dateline – 10 October 2011

·         Image – male or female  students