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I have created a masthead which promotes the magazine and gives it a unique name; I did this by thinking of my own magazine name and I produced it in a way in order to make it stand out – I used bright, large and unique font. I made sure that my masthead fit in with my colour scheme. I stuck to the typical conventions of a masthead by placing it in the top left hand corner of my page. The masthead effectively reflects what the magazine is about.
My main image is conventionally large to fit around a third of my magazine cover and it also reflects the contents of the magazine. My model makes clear eye contact with the camera which is effective as it draws the audience in. The one critique I have is that the image itself is not very clear, and I do not think that it fits well into the background as the image has too many yellow hues.
I stuck to a colour scheme of two colours; green and white. I decided to use these two colours as they was a lot of green and white in my background image and white I thought that using white text instead of black gave the magazine cover a more sophisticated look. I would also say that the colour green could represent nature and health whilst white represents pureness and innocence; consequently choosing these colours has given my magazine a clean and friendly look. By using white for my main stories, and then again to advertise a page reference is effective as this will make my readers instantly notice that page number and jump straight to it.
I have used an issue number, dateline and barcode in order to make the magazine cover look a lot more professional and realistic. I have placed the dateline conventionally below the masthead as it makes sense to show the dateline below the masthead as they both match together. I also placed the issue number next to the masthead as they conventionally go together. This information is placed at the top as it isn’t really that important towards the audience. The barcode I have placed at the bottom of the page (right hand side) as again it isn’t important for the reader and therefore doesn’t need to be placed somewhere where it is easily noticed.
I have made sure that my main article relates to my image of the student by making the main article the most noticeable (by using different coloured and styled font to the others) and by placing it near the image of my student.
I have placed the majority of my articles on the left third of this page as this is the conventional thing to do. This is effective because when magazines are stacked on shelves, the left third of the magazine is the part of the magazine that is shown to the audience, so by putting most of my stories on that side my magazine is being advertised more. However, it is important to put a story on the other side so the magazine looks balanced.
I have used four cover lines on my magazine as I felt that was an appropriate and accurate number of cover lines to use. I have tried to make the cover lines catchy so that they will draw in the audience, for example ‘Missing student!’ The cover lines fit in with the colour scheme (except the main story as I wanted it to stand out) as they are all in white.
I have also used a kicker on one of my articles so that this will effectively ‘kick’ the audience to a specific page thus making them read the article further.
I have used tellers underneath every cover line so that the audience will know what each article is about briefly.
I have used a skyline so that I can show what the magazine is about; this also adds some definition to the masthead. The skyline is important as it gives a little teaser as to what the reader can expect inside the magazine.
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My magazine has been created exclusively for Wyke College as only Wyke college students are able to read it. Wyke College doesn’t have any magazine other than the college paper for students to read, which I imagine will be academically based and provide news about results; my magazine can be compared to this paper as my magazine would also be academically based. The way in which my magazine would be different is that my magazine would also have inside articles written by the teachers, instead of students.
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I have made it so that my magazine gives off a sophisticated atmosphere as I wanted the message to be that it was a very academic magazine which can be used to access grades and exam dates etc. I want to represent the college in a positive way and to make the college seem very successful.
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The obvious audience that I am aiming for are students who attend Wyke college as the magazine won’t be available to anyone else outside of Wyke. My audience isn’t generalized to one year as both first and second years will be allowed to read the magazine. The magazine will be aimed equally at both girls and boys alike.
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My magazine will represent students positively as it mentions a 100% pass rate; any bad grades will not be mentioned in the magazine. Therefore this will represent the college positively as it says that all students either passed or got exceptionally well grades.
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