here is my contents page

here is my plan of what is going to be on my front cover

This moodboard is of magazine covers and mastheads.

Layout

The layout for magazine will be a typical magazine layout, I will have the masthead at the top of the page spreading over the top to cover it all. I'll have the selling line ust underneathat the left hand side. The main image covering the whole page with the main story line over the image.

draft

i shall be scanning in my written draft sometime in the next few days, also my IT draft shall be following this in another post.

Planning-Models

The model I have chosen to use for my front cover is my friend Lizzy, she will be sat in the Rose Garden having a cigarette to go with my cover story, Rose Garden why have it? I will use a medium close-up shot for this because that is shown in the brief. The props i would use in this piece is a cigarette and m bag, to show she is at college.

Software

The software choices i have thought of for this project are as follows:
Microsoft Office Word
Photoshop
Microsoft Publisher

I think that for my magazine I'll be using Microsoft Publisher because I know how to use this software and it already has a simple and easy to follow layout available.

The main target audience for this magazine would probably be males form the age of 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MAPu_9oyLY


I found this video on youtube and thought it would come in useful to my task

Ideas for cover stories

In one of my media lessons I have thought about what stories I would have in a college magazine. The ideas i have come up with are:

• Red Nose Day, how are we helping?
• Dreaming of a Wyke Christmas
• Student Gossip Page
• Wyke Musical... Battle of the sexes
• Dodgeball, The champs
• Rose Garden, Why have it?
• Health and wellbeing
• feedback on new psychology teaching styles

these are only a few ideas, I may update when I have more ideas as I only have about 7-8 stories now.

I found this front cover of a college magazine on the internet and decided to compare it to my other front cover I wrote about earlier.

I found this at:

http://www.jacobtyler.com/portfolio_images/CMag-covers.jpg

This magazines masthead is a very simple one, it has simple font and is clearly at the top of the page. Also the masthead is spread out to fit the whole page.

Unlike normal magazines this college magazine doesn't have a barcode or a price on it so I'm assuming that it is free and used to deal with issues from the college or just general issues college students have. A main similarity between normal magazines and this college magazine is the main image, on both magazines the image is very dominant and fits the whole page to draw the readers attention to it. From what i can see, I don't think that this magazine has an issue number however it may be at the bottom of the page.

Research for a front cover

http://johnnie.blows.co.uk/portfolio/files/gimgs/3_shattered-christmas.jpg




Browsing the internet I found this cover for a magazine called SHATTERED. I thought I could deconstruct the image and find out a few things that are neccessary for a magazine front cover.



The masthead
The masthead is most often found at the top of the cover and this displays the name of the magazine and is very important. The masthead is the visual branding of the title. The masthead usually has a certain font, so it is easily recognisable for the readers of the magazine itself.



The barcode and selling
This part of the magazine shows the year, month and day that the magazine is published.
The barcode is a standard barcode used by retailers to tell them how much the magazine costs, usually the price of the magazine is either by the side of or underneath the barcode, this is so the consumer knows how much the magazine is.



The Issue number
putting the Issue number on the magazine helps people to go back to any issue if they have to.
The issue number is there so that the consumer knows what issue it is. Also it is there so that the consumer knows if they have missed one of the magazines or not, it could also be used by the creator of the magazine to post feed-back on a certain issue of the magazine.



Main Image
In the case of this magazine cover, the main image is of the band Irony is Dead. Two of the three band members have tinsel wrapped around their neck to show that it is a christmas issue and they are showing christmas spirit. All three band members are making eye contact to draw you into the magazine, also they are all stood casually to show that this magazine isn't about serious news.

conventions of a contents page

1. Page numbers
2. sub-headings
3. pictures to describe topic
4. contact information
5. Cover stories
6. adverts
7. information about the magazine
8. stories
9. welcome paragraph
10. competition information