Preliminary task front cover

This is the magazine cover that we designed for our preliminary task. The image we used is situated outside of the main building at college and features two AS level students.  We included a puff in the form of a free note book to keep in with the college theme. We used bright colours for the text to make it bright and eye catching to the reader. The essential information is located in the bottom right third of the page. It is kept seperate from the rest of the page to make it easy to view for the reader. We decided to charge 30p for the magazine as it is for college students who may not be able to afford a lot of money but also, many students may not be that interested in a college magazine so by only charging 30p they might decide to try it. We positioned the mast head at the top of the page accross all thirds. We chose the name Student Life as clearly represents what the magazine is and what type of articles it will include. Once it was finished, we realised that we did not include an issue number. If we were to redo the page we would include it. I think that we stuck to our flat plan for our front cover quite well. We used the layout of the flat plan to decide where our features would be placed.

This is the contents page for our preliminary task. We tried to keep the colour scheme similar however the colours are not a direct match. In my own music magazine, I will make sure to use the same exact colours to keep continuity and look professional. There is also a few places of blank space on the contents page. I will make sure not to have this in my own magazine. We kept the main feature of the contents page to link with the main feature on the front cover to give continuity and focus.