Preliminary Task: Brief

Preliminary task

Initial ideas and proposal

    
I am going to making my own college magazine. I am going to be doing research and analysis of other similar magazines. By doing this i will therefore be able to make a more realistic and successful final product. 
     My magazine is going to be called S.D.C.M. (South Downs College Magazine). For my magazine I am going to take a photo of a student and use that on the front cover of my magazine. The target audience for the magazine is going to be 16-19 year olds at college. The magazine will be about college life.
    I have thought about a few coverlines. Things about new students, how to look good, interviews with members of staff and also competitions. Hopefully having coverlines that will help to attract people to want to read the magazine.

     One of the main magazines i looked at when i was researching was an Magazine called "college" it was an american magazine but it had all the concepts that i liked about a magazine. I am going to be using a similar cover plan and image for my magazine. I am doing this because i believe that you should have a young person preferably from the college as it is more attractive to the other students/audience. 

The main conventions of a college magazine are 

• Single main image on the cover
• Masthead at head of page
• Use a theme that reflects the main image
• Bright bold contrasting colours
• Images of young people

Flat Plan

I have created two sample flat plans. I have looked at some other magazines to see different ways that a cover can be displayed and used these to create my samples. In the end i didn't like either of these and i decided to crate a different one with the main image to the left hand side with the cover 
lines to the right.

Contents Flat Plan

This is my sample for the flat plan of my Contents page. In the end i decided to go with the one on the left as it is simpler and more effective i believe and also it is the most common one you see.