Research and Planning - College Magazine Analysis

1. Are the font sizes correct?
I think the font sizes are suitable for the magazine because they are eye-catching without being tacky and make the magazine look appealing and interesting.

2. Does it follow the three colour rule?
Yes, the colours being red, blue and white.

3. Can you tell the contents page and the cover are from the same magazine?
Yes because they follow the same house style and colour scheme, and also feature photo's of the same person.

4. Are the photographs well taken and appropriate?
Yes because I used a fellow student from the college, which means its someone the audience can relate to and even know.

5. Are there enough stories on the contents page?Are the appropriate?
Yes I think they are appropriate as there is not too many and they go into the suitable amount of detail for people to be interested in. They are also appropriate for the target audience due to the fact they are about everyday things around college and stuff the students can actually relate too and find important. 

Research and Planning - College Magazine Contents Page

This is my completed contents page, it follows the colour scheme of the front page and contains an image of the same person that is on the cover.

Research and Planning - Completed College Magazine Cover

This is my completed college magazine cover. For this I had to use various photo-shop techniques which included cropping pictures, adding text and inserting a masthead. The first thing I did for this task was discover what font I thought best appropriate for the college magazine's target audience. The one I chose is called '28 Days Later' and I think this was a well suited one as it makes the name stand out. Secondly I saved the photo I had taken of my friend (which is a medium close-up) and put it into photo-shop so I could edit it. Once the picture had been added into photo-shop I began editing the picture by using the lasso tool around the edges of her, once I had done so I dragged the selected section of the photo and overlapped it onto my cover. Having done so I edited the photo size and placed it where I wanted on the page. When I had completed all these various tasks I added insert text cover-lines too one side, edited the colours and then saved the file as a JPEG.

Research and Planning - Photos

Research and Planning - Cover and Contents Page Draft

Research and Planning - Masthead Practice

For this exercise I had to find and chose appropriate font styles for the magazines Popworld, Death Metal and Popcorn, each of which are from different genres and types of magazines. To be able to edit this I opened photo-shop and also the website 'Dafonts.com'. Once I had found the fonts I thought most appropriate I downloaded them off the site and put them into the selection of fonts to chose from in photoshop. For the 'Popworld' I used Last King Quest, for 'Death Metal' I used Sketch College and for 'Popcorn' I used 28 Days Later. Once I had done this I created a new document and typed the names of the magazines separately. Once I had done this I customised the colours and sizes and then changed the fonts to the ones I had downloaded. After this I saved the file and changed it too a JPEG.

Research and Planning - Audience Interviews and Analysis of Answers

Question 1 - 
The answers from questioning some fellow college students have told me that they would expect to see various things from a college magazine such as news about what is happening around college and what is going on and that they would expect things that they are interested to appear in it.

Question 2 - 
They would expect that if the magazine was sold on an often occasion to contain regular aspects such as horoscopes.

Question 3 - 
My questioning has shown that they would expect the magazine to be a reasonable price ranging from fifty pence to one pound.

Question 4 - 
My question results also show that in order to appeal to a range of students they would expect it to be of bright colours, appeal to both genders, be eye-catching and contain interesting things.

Question 5 - 
The most suggested colour scheme was either make it bright, simple colours or red, purple and blue.