Preliminary Task
Our task brief was to create a student magazine; my magazine is aimed at students studying at South Downs College aged 16-18. My magazine will cover topics inside and out of college, the first issue will be a welcoming into the college featuring revision tips, enrichments, know your way around, bus time tables and various others. I decided to make my cover lines short and snappy, including punctuation to grab the reader’s attention.
My next decision was the Mast Head of my magazine I thought of three titles to use Student, Student Life or SDC Monthly. Out of the three I chose Student Life because I felt that it covered the whole aspect of being a student, other than just the academic side. I've chosen to use bold relaxed fonts, creating a friendly atmosphere. Such as 'Apple Boy' and 'Arial Bold'. I also included 'Comic Sans' which is a Sans Serif Font as they're usually associated with a younger tabloid magazine such as OK, opposed to a broadsheet like The Times which are typically aimed at an older audience and include a Serif font. My Mast Head has ‘student’ written in bold and then ‘life’ hovering above slightly giving the impression that life is hanging in the balance, due to certain decisions impacting the future.
The tagline for my magazine is “your college survival guide”, making it an essential part of college life. It will be published at the start of the college year, and will feature different seasons and the articles in the magazine will also be related to the seasons. The main image for my magazine will always be a student from South Downs with an area of college as the background, to make it clear who the target audience is. The magazine would be published monthly, and the size of the magazine would be A4 sized and the colour scheme is based around the college logo: White, black, blue and green.
Overall I’m pleased with the layout of my magazine cover and hope my work will progress across the course. However, I would try and improve the background of my image by possibly taking it in front of the main college reception. Also due to technical difficulties my contents page font is slightly different from the front cover.
