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Friday, 12 November 2010


The colour scheme is the same as the front however (orange and black), this keeps it looking more professional and interesting. By outlining that the next issue is just 50p may capture the audience’s attention because it is outlined in orange and their isn’t any other thing that’s orange on the contents page, its interesting because it’s drawn to you in a certain way, that makes your attention automatically drawn to it.
The fonts used are the same within this page, sticking to just two fonts, however the main font that is used is different to the front cover and for it to look more professional it would be better if the main font style and additional fonts would remain the same, so that way you are just using two or three varied fonts. The colour of the font being black helps it to stand out well against the white background and makes it look more interesting especially because the font is in a fancy style which infers that it’s for a younger generation because adults wouldn’t really like fonts like that they would prefer simple to fancy.
I got my page names from my questionnaire, I done this by asking several people and making an average of what sort of pages they would like depending on what boxes they ticked. I kept the font to the names of the pages in the main font so it reflects on the contents title and then changed the font to a simpler, easier to read font so you can see clearly what page each thing is on.
Lastly at the bottom of the contents page I placed several images of images I have taken and then three other images that I have not taken of celebrities, this way it makes it more interesting for the audience to think it’s not only students from the college in the magazine but there is pages about celebrities too, and also by doing this it breaks up the faces within the pictures as you don’t want all the same faces all the time a variety makes it much more interesting. I chose this selection of images in particular because you can see that some pictures would be from the college party, some from student’s photography and others in general of students around college doing different things.
I arranged my images like as it makes it more interesting to look a bit messy, as young people don’t want to look at a perfectly arranged magazine, they like to see imperfections and changes to usual things that their parents would look at.

Thursday, 11 November 2010


The colours used are orange and black only, this indicates that it is for male or female and also using these colours together makes it really stand out. The title is “Your college” this informs the viewer that it will be about their college and what is in it. The title colour is black so it stands out against the white background, this way it helps to capture the viewer’s eye also and makes it more interesting for them.
There is a middle shot used of a student like person, the shot it positioned slightly to the left and the person doesn’t have eye contact they are looking down at the books that they are using as a prop; the prop used is books and this helps the viewer to tell that this is a college magazine. The way you can instantly imagine the person on the cover being a student is the fact that they look fashionable and are wearing the clothes that people would wear at college today, they are holding books as a prop and they look like a teenage person would. Having a student on the front cover is good because it helps the viewer to be able to relate or think “that person goes to my college”.
The text down the side is interesting because it is also orange and black, so this is keeping to two colour schemes but there is different sorts of text used, the fonts are clear but stand out and the text varies from being bold to italic to normal, also different sizes are used. This makes it that bit more eye capturing, adds more variety to the cover and also makes it more interesting.
The background colour is white, this grabs the attention of people because having a image placed on a white background and then bold, bright/dark texts against the background is automatically eye-catching.
The language used helps you to know it’s for a teenage audience “need cash?”; this is informal text and most teenagers do need cash, it then goes on to explain how you can get cash by informing the viewer that there is a jobs section inside. Also there is quite a lot of rhetorical questions, by doing this it makes you want to know the answer or you automatically answer it. Also on the front cover it advertises the fact that if you subscribe for the magazine then you get 50% off the original price that you would usually pay, this is also capturing the attention of the viewer as they know from when they first get the magazine they are aware that if they like it they can subscribe and pay half the price.