College Magazine Contents Page

This is the contents page for my college magazine

College Magazine Front Cover

This is my front cover for my college magazine.

Flatplans

This is my front cover flat plan

This is my contents page flat plan

Magazine proposal

Magazine proposal

I am aiming my magazine at students who are currently studying at college. They are most likely to be people of he ages 16-19 so the material within the magazine would have to cater to a wide audience. It could also be used as a material for promoting college to people who are deciding which option to take after they leave school.  It will give them an insight of the sort of activities that the colleges offer and what the student union do. The magazine will also talk about anything new that has happened in the college.

There would be cover lines on my front cover to entice the reader into reading the magazine. These will include lines like “win a holiday for you and three friends to Disneyland Paris!”, “Uni fees through the roof, hear what the experts have to say…”and “How to stay happy and healthy at college!” I think that this will interest the target audience so that they will be more likely to read the magazine.

The fonts that I am going to use throughout my magazine are going to be formal but still reasonably playful. This is because I want there to be a serious edge to my magazine but for due to the target audience they may not want a magazine full of serious issues. I think that a font like Ariel would be a suitable font as it covers everything that I want it to. I would use this font for my cover lines and writing in the magazine itself for example the information on the contents page.

The tagline that I think I am going to use is “the magazine that everyone wants to read” I think that this will help to draw the audience in as it makes the magazine seem popular and wanted by the audience. it will also hint that the content of the magazine is something that the target audience will want to read and find out about.

My magazine is going to be released every fortnight, this will allow for the cost to be lightly higher and the content to be of a higher quality. the cover can then reflect the different events that will happen within the acedemic year, and this may help to widen the audience as they might be interested in different events throughout the year. it will be publised thoughout the whole of the year.

the kind of image that i plan to put on the front of my magazine if a medium close up shot of a person who is looking straight at the camera adn smiling. i think that this will be a good shot as it will draw the audiences attention to the persons main features. with the model smiling it will give out a positive vibe and this will also interest and attract the reader.

the colours that i would use for my magazine are going to be vibrant so that they stand out against other magazines but i would only use a few at a time so that the magazine is not crowded. I would use neutral colours so that the magazine would nto look like it was aimed at a specific sex and therefore decrease the size of the possible audience. i would contiue to use the same colours once i decide on them every time the magazine was publised

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations that they offer?

I think that teenage girl magazines should be held responsible for the majority of the views that their readers feel. I believe this because at the age of the targeted audience they are easily impressionable and get the majority of feelings from other media instead of creating their own opinions and living by them. I think it is easier for teenage girls to follow the “norm” than to stand out. This means that when an opinion is portrayed to them as right they are more likely to follow this than follow what their own opinion is, if they have an opinion on the identified subject. An example of this is when a teenage magazine portrays a certain pop star as “cute and talented” then the audience will automatically decide that they also like that certain pop star. Due to the high similarities in many of the magazines that are available to them they all form the same opinions of certain things. Something that is represented a lot in the magazines is boys. Whether its a pop star that they can only dream about or a quiz telling you if your crush is really the fairy tale prince they fancy, boys are all over these girls magazines. The models that are used in these magazine are all seen as what is thought to be good looking. This therefore makes the audience acquire a materialistic view of what all boys should be like. Another thing that makes up a large part of a teenage girls magazine is clothes and beauty. I feel that this causes a large social ramification within the community of teenage girls because they feel that they need to have the clothes that are classed as “in fashion”. This is both damaging for themselves and the people who can’t afford to have every one of the latest trends. This also hinders younger teenagers from finding out that they are as a person because they are all trying to become one. There are some teenage girls that can pull away from the stereotypes but these are then commonly picked on and bullied by those who do conform to the trends, which then makes them afraid to be who they are for fear of persecution. Linking to beauty, all the female models that are used in the magazine do not show girls that are going through puberty and feeling the changes that occur. None of them have spots or struggle with weight. Where as many teenage girls in this generation do. This is not a fair representation of what a typical teenage girl looks like. Seeing thin girls on the front of magazines makes the reader idolise this and want to be thin leading to problems like anorexia and bulimia. This therefore makes the magazines that the majority of young teenage girls read responsible for the social ramifications that they are made to conform to. 

Five magazines aimed at teenage girls

Conventions of teenage girl magazines:

• Large masthead that is in front of the model to make it stand out and visible to the target audience
• Colour schemes that use a large amount of stereotypically feminine colours
• Puffs and plugs that are related to fashion, beauty and real life stories and things the publishing company believe to be of interest to the target audience  to draw the attention of the audience to purchase that specific magazine over the others.  
• The model on the front cover is always placed over the centre or right third as this is where the attention of the reader is drawn first. 
• There are also varying shapes of the puffs around each of the models, normally straight lines are used to segment specific sections of information as depending on the size and colour of the font and puffs the audiences attention will be drawn to specific things first. 

Attempt at photography

The model is positioned in the right third of the image, and the camera shot is a high angle shot.  

 Model is in the last third of the frame. He is not looking at the camera but his eyes are a main focus of the image. It is a medium close up shot. 

 I have used a low angle shot in this photo and the model is in the right third of the image. 

The model is positioned in the centre and right thirds of the shot. he is mainly in the right third. it is a medium close up shot. 

Analysis of Front cover

Who is the target audience for my chosen magazine, how does it appeal to them?

I think that the target audience for this magazine is teenage females and older. I also think people that are interested about the personal lives of celebrities will be attracted towards this magazine as it is clear to the audience that this is what the magazine is about from various aspects of the cover. I think this for many reasons; the first being the colour scheme that is used, the main colour of the background is pink. This gives off connotations of feminism and links the magazines to females. Black is also used and this makes certain parts of the cover stand out against the paler colour of the background.  Another aspect of the front cover that makes the magazine appeal to woman and teenage girls is the cover line and the pull quotes. These entice the possible audience, as they want to read more about the subject that has been put on the front. The magazine companies choose the pull quotes and tag lines that they think will sell the most magazines and this generally means the most scandalous or interesting. They also do many things to appeal to the target audience that have identified to try and attract as many of them to the purchase the magazine. The front of a magazine is split into different sections by the use of boxes, colours and lines which draws the audience’s attention to different things. The model is positioned in the right third of the cover and this draws the audience’s attention towards it first then to the other features.  The main image on the front cover is of Katie Price, and also the main cover line is about her, this implies that the main stories in the magazine are going to be about her. This will attract an audience that like to know about what is going on in her life. One of the smaller Pull quotes on the front cover is of a real life story that is within the magazine, this will attract an audience that like to read about other members of the public who have interesting stories to tell. Some of the readers may also be able to relate to parts of the stories therefore making the magazine feel more personal to themselves. The selling line of Closer is another thing that makes the magazine appeal to the targeted audiences. "Celebs + real life +fashion + tv." This tells the audience in simple terms what is included in the magazine so they can decide if they want to buy it or not.

To conclude I think that the target audience for Closer is Teenage and older females who are interested in everything that is included in the selling line. I think Closer have successfully made a magazine front cover that will appeal to the audience that they have targeted, by using the right conventions and techniques.  

Beth Bowpitt

Front cover of a magazine

Task 2 - Part 1

Masthead - the name of the magazine

Puff - the way that the plug is presented 

Plug - an advert that will help to entice the audience in 

Cover-lines - titles of articles that the reader can expect to find in the magazine

Pull quote - a quote from one of the articles within the magazine

Dateline - the date in which the magazine was issued, or the month that it was for

Colour scheme - the colours that were used on the cover and throughout the magazine 

Left third - the first third of the magazine on the left 

Centre third - the middle third of the magazine front cover 

Right third- the last third of the magazine cover 

Model- the model is the image of a person on the front cover 

Price - how much the magazine costs to purchase 

Font - the text on the front of the magazine 

Issue number - the amount of issues that have been produced before of the magazine 

Barcode - the computer readable label that distinguishes the product and price

Getting to know Blogger!

Thing you can do with blogger:

• Share what you are doing with others through text 
• Publish images 
• Post videos
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• Promote business'
• Personalize it to your own taste or the images of your company 
• Import text files and images from other programs
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How I think blogger will be useful for my coursework: 

• Easy to access from home and at college 
• Easy for other people to access to view my blogs
• Saves me from printing out many different sheets of work which will help me and the environment 
• Able to add many different medias to the blog so my work can be in different forms 

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