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Preliminary Task: Brief 

Initial Idea’s 

My first thought of my cover was to be bright and colourful so it attracts people and they are interested into the magazine enough to

pick it up and take it away. The colours which I were most interested

in including were green, red, blue (dark and light) black and white – 

this gives the audience an impression of the magazine as neither just 

for male or just for female.

For my picture I wanted a picture of a happy student not deliberately

posing but smiling to give a positive reaction to the audience. I

wanted the picture to be outside/ near greenery, which shows itsmore natural.

I wanted to have about 2 or 3 puffs on the cover but I wanted them

different colours because otherwise they would look like they link 

whereas they don’t.

Proposal

  My magazine isn’t specifically targeted for a gender but I choseto have the target age as 16-20 year olds because it is the

average age group for college students

  The typical content will be about fashion (boys and girls) and

also gossip with the college

  My cover lines will have to say something, which engages the

audience and also a topic which everyone is interested on.

  My mast head is called ‘College Insider’ because I feel it stands

for being within the college and it represents that the magazine

is the in’s and out’s of college.  I wanted to use a bold font but which was san serif but I

wanted it to be a brighter relaxing colour. I looked at italic font 

for all of the cover lines and mast head but I didn’t think that it 

looked together enough as it looked a bit messy.

  The magazine is a autumn issue because of the clothing the

student is wearing in the main image (jumper) yet there is

bright green grass and trees still around from the summer.

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  I took the image with a DSLR camera to have the best possible

quality and I decided on having the photo taken in front of a

grass bank to show the season/time of year.

  The magazine would be published every fortnight because

where students have a lot of coursework they shouldn’t bedistracted by the magazine but they should still be interested

into reading it. Also, if it is issued every other week then they

have a week to look forward to the next one.

  I chose to have my magazine 209mm wide and 297mm in

height, which is the average size for a magazine.

  I will be making the contents page to be very simple with not 

too many words but enough to have something to read about 

because this page is usually scanned instead of being read

properly.

I first placed the

picture into the

frame and

created a

masthead.

Then I added the

cover lines.

After that I added two

puffs which include a free

item you receive with themagazine and also its

cheap price.

Finally I added a barcode

and also enlarged the

masthead. And now I havefinished.