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.