Language – the language used on here is very important as we see the rebellious connotation of the stars being used instead of letters for the effect of making the cover seem more rebellious and more exciting with the hidden meaning and almost the clues that have to be found out by us, and worked out by the readers. Also the use of capitals helps to draw our attention; also by it being situated in the middle of the cover it draws our attention to the model even more. There are also many other artists listed in the bottom left corner of the magazine and they consist of many different genres from idie to R’n’B so therefore the magazine will appeal to a wider audience.

Main Task

In my main task I must include:

• Front page
• Contents page
• Double page spread
• I must manipulate the images on photoshop
• I must include a brief
• L.I.I.A.R Analysis
• Magazine Conventions
• Analysis on 3 magazine front covers - 3 contents pages and 3 double spreads

The Brief

Main Task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Contents page

I also added a contents page to make the magazine easier for students to use so they can just focus on reading what they need to rather than having to read the whole magazine before finding out what they really need. This will contain different stories following different areas each time the magazine is published. I have sued the colour purple as it symbolizes Wyke and therfore follows through with the theme from the wyke logo included on the front cover of my magazine.  

Final Design

Final Design - with the barcode, price, issue number and wyke logo added to the design to improve the design further.

Evaluation

                        Evaluation

My magazine has many of the conventions you would expect to see on a front cover for a magazine. I have done this purposefully, so that the magazine looks neat and professional. I have also done this purposefully so that I am able to include all the magazine conventions that are needed to be included, such as the masthead, small features, colour scheme, sky line, left third etc. the way that these are set out is really just as important, if not more important, as if they are just thrown onto the page without any real thought of where they are being placed then it can make the front cover look untidy and not cared for, and this really isn’t what I wanted my magazine to look like, I want it to look like it has been cared for and there is a reason for things being where they are.   By placing the barcode, price and issue number in the bottom left hand corner of the magazine, it not only makes the magazine look even more professional but also can determine how successful the magazine is, which could be seen as a positive.

I have used two students, who have been photo shopped so that they are actually on the campus of the college and you are able to see the college in the background and the college looks clean and tidy and a nice place to be. Originally, you could see lots of students in the background, when the photograph was landscape, however the image had to be cropped to portrait A4, so I lost some of that but you are still able to see the students in the background and this is good because it shows that the college is a place that excepts most people and it is a busy and popular college which is good to have on the front of the magazine as it is promoting the college. The college students are smiling and holding books which show they are hard-working and at college to learn, and by them smiling it shows that they are happy to be at the college and they are enjoying it. By incorporating the logo into the magazine makes the magazine seem more familiar and may make people recognise the logo more so it makes it more clear of which college the magazine is aimed at so I also see this as a positive which is why the logo has been included, by including the logo this is called an identifying image.

Institution

The magazine would be distributed around the college and advertised on the college website where students are accessing the site daily to check their emails and catch up on the courses they are studying so catching a glimpse of the college being advertised is indefinite. The college would not need to be distributed outside of the college or at other colleges because the magazine is solely for Wyke and their students and therefore no other colleges should need to know about what is happening, as the magazine is simply informing people about events happening at Wyke and then exam pressure etc which other colleges will have in their magazine for themselves.

Ideology

By using an image of the college site, it shows that we are not afraid to show off the college facilities and that the college is a clean, tidy and happy environment to be in. the fact I have used two students stood happily smiling and holding books this gives the impression that they are happy to be at college and enjoying their education which is definitely a positive. The fact I have used two women also promotes the idea that men and women are equal at the college and women have just as much of a chance to gain a good education as men despite the stereotypical view that women are supposed to stay at home and not gain an education, this is 100% not the case now in the modern world we live in and at Wyke college.

Audience

It is clear to see the audience that my college magazine has been aimed at, it is aimed completely at college student and the magazine has been made to help them further and to help them to find out about activities and clubs taking place at the college and to also give them help about exams and the pressure of exams and help them to succeed during their time at Wyke. However, college teachers may want to also read the magazine to find out what’s going on and what the students are up to, this could also give them a better idea of student life and help them to relate to students problems and help students feel like their teachers are their friends as well as their tutors.

Representation

The college is represented well on the magazine front cover as the college looks clean and tidy and there is no rubbish anywhere on the site in the picture so therefore, this is a positive and the college site looks busy with students which shows that Wyke college is a popular place to study and not only that, the two students included on the front of the magazine are both smiling and both look really happy and enjoying their studies which once again promotes a happy environment for students which may persuade people to choose Wyke.

digital mock up

I created a digital mock up using publisher, this may be my base for my own magazine as then I have a template to copy off and can put me in the right direction, i have done it slightly different to an original magazine front cover mock up because i wanted it to be a bit unique to me.

Portrait Draft

After careful consideration, I have decided that the landscape magazine front cover that I did was not appropriate as landscape looks more like a poster than a magazine front cover so therefore I changed the layout and style of the front cover but kept the text and context the same and made the magazine front cover A4. This now looks ideal for my magazine front cover, not only is it now the correct size but it is also portrait instead of landscape. I have also changed the colour and style of some of the text in the hope that it will be easier to read, despite the different colours in the background photograph, as I wanted to listen to my audience feedback.  

To create the background image, I took an image of the two girls and a background image of the college and I then cut around the 2 girls using the lasso tool and then added them onto the other background picture as I was not 100% happy with the background image they were currently on. Even though it was more work, it was worth it as it is difficult to tell i have even done so as I used the blur tool to go around the edges to make it less possible to tell that i have imported a separate image.

audience feedback explanation

For my audience feedback, I asked various peers in my class what they thought of the mock up for my magazine and to be completely honest in their opinions about the magazine, i then asked if there was any improvements that they thought could be added to the magazine, and i made sa not of them in my jotter. For my final design, I will include these extra ideas, to make the work the best of my ability. By collecting feedback from my class I was able to put together this basic table.

Audience Feedback

	Yes	No
Is the colour scheme too plain?	1	5
Is it a good representation of the college?	6	0
Is the writing too difficult to read?	0	6
Is the masthead clear? (the college it is focused on – Wyke)	0	6

outside college

basic exisitng website idea

How would you promote the launch of your magazine on the internet?

How would you promote the launch of your magazine on the internet?

I would promote the launch of my magazine by putting up leaflets around the school saying that there was going to be a college magazine that is going to be able to inform people as to what has been going on. I would also tell students and teachers to tell everyone about the new magazine so that the news can travel by word of mouth, for example if teachers are letting students know that the things that are going on can be found in the college magazine, then this is a positive for the sale of the magazine as people are more inclined to buy it. I will make the magazine different from the website by including things that are more interesting and fun that people would want to read about, for example, the prom and parties that are going at that moment, Wyke parties etc. also including information about driving instructors and lessons, whereas the internet page will be kept totally for school work and keep it based around college lessons, topics, coursework and exams and keep the internet as more of a help page instead of whereas the magazine will be taken less seriously and more focused around the students as then they are more inclined to buy it. This will be helpful because students will be able to read about things going on at college and then tell each other about the things they have read about, so therefore, once again, the word of the magazine will travel and therefore more and more people will want to buy the magazine as they won’t want to miss out. The benefits of engaging the audience via the website is that the website is constantly checked by students for them to be able to access their emails which are from teachers about work so is a very important source of communication, also in this day and age, teenagers are a lot more likely to be using the internet to research and find out information and even using social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter etc. so therefore teenagers are already constantly online, even receiving updates straight to their mobile so by using the internet site as well as the magazine this means that students are able to look at it from the internet on their phone/laptop and therefore makes it easier and takes up less of their time so they are more likely to visit the web page. On the website there would be only parts to a story and then the story is continued in the magazine, for example, ten top tips for exams are on the website but the other ten are in the magazine so the magazine has to be bought for the whole 20 top tips for exams. Another example would be, that there are ideas for the theme of prom on the website, but the ideas of where to get your suits and dresses and the timings for the prom are included in the magazine. This way the reader’s attention is grabbed yet they have not been able to do anything about it as of ye5t as they need to buy the magazine.