Flat plan and real contents page for my preliminary

my contents page is very simialr to my flat plan original thoughts and ideas as i didn't want to change things too much. i made one picture at an angle to add more excitement to the page. i did this on my front cover where i rotated the cover story information a little to create a feeling of mess and disorder at the same time keeping order. with every title of a page, i added information about the story and gave a page number reference. i didn't want to give the contents page a number as i would have ended up with an uneven page number in my magazine. for each title and iformation, i used a different colour and the same for the page number. i used the same sans serif font i had before to create a sense of uniformity throughout the magazine. i used the same coloured background as my front cover and the same colours for my font. i decided to make the writing at size 18 which was a bit bigger than the writing on the front cover as there was more room to fit the information in in that font size. if i were to improve my front cover i would probably do the same as i would of done for my front cover and make it a more unisex magazine to poen up to a wider audience.

Preliminary collge magazine front cover flat plan and final cover

This is my front cover flat plan and i have stuck to my original layout in my preliminary magazine. i thought it would be a fun layout and appealing to my target audience of girls between 16-21 that are students at the college. i used the rule of thirds in my plan and followed the lines as the point of power was on the picture. my image fitted in nicely with the left hand point of power where the eye is drawn to my friend blowing a bubble. the colours i had chosen was meant to be for both a male and female audience but from a male opinion it appeared more as a female magazine so i changed it to be targeted for female audience as it didn't seem appealing to males. the colour scheme was electric and bold colours with a black background that would follow throughout the whole magazine. my main picture took up the whole of the cover and then my main sells, strap lines and cover stories overlapped it like in fashion magazine "vogue". if i could improve on my next piece it would be to appeal to both genders and a wider audience by drawing them in with a front cover that is exciting, attractive and covers all interests in music. the main aim of my magazine cover is to intoce a wide audience of students within college. Idecided to call my magazine "FRESH" as i felt it was new and original and appealing to newer students also. i used sans serif font for my front cover and contents page as i wanted it to seem informal and inviting. the font face was Arial for Autograph which was appealing and not too hare to understand. for the masthead i used bigger sizes and extra bold. i chose in my tag line to make the work "ultimate" stangd out from the other words as it is putting across that it stands out and the only magazine for their particular needs. i used different coloured letter for my masthead and the same coloured lettter for my tag line to make it more intersting and attractive looking. MASTHEAD = size 48 and making the letters go down as if it was falling: like the ID magazine.
i usd the stroy font size as 18 and the strap lines 14 so that all the information could fit into the box. i made an issue number and the date. this was nummber one issue dated in September as it i wanted it to be like it is the first one so people will get it as it is new.

INTRODUCTION TO PRELIMINARY COURSEWORK

For my Preliminary coursework, i decided to do a magazine that targeted mainly the female students of the college and setting out the colour design in that way. At first i thought it would be appealing to both boys and girls, but other people's opinions didn't see it that way so my plans schanged to make it a magazine for girls instead. i used two images that i thought would be interesting for all students across the curriculum and every issue there would be a different course advertised or shown in it. i chose to use a final image from my photography that i took as i thought it would be useful for new AS students to find out what other people did and how creative some are. i then chose to use an older picture that i took of my friend blowing bubbles and based a story around that it was a fundraising event (Children in Need).

i think it looks fun and appealing! i chose to use this picture with the bubble in as it was a good and intersetinf shot at an angle but getting her face and torso in the picture holding the bubble stick. i chose to take it at an angle as i didn't want one facing straight, i wanted it to be interseting and fun. i arranged my front cover with this picture as the main flash as it was the main story of my magazine for a fundraising event and used my scanner art as a side story as one of my main sells and added information about each on what they are about and what page they are on.

Briony Barrett blog 1 introduction-main task.

The task for my main coursework is to come up with a music magazine and to develop my skills further on from my preliminary task of making a college magazine. I will focus on music that I like and I feel would apply to only a particular audience but might also attract others as it will have a lot of new music information. My plan is to base it around the magazine NME as I feel it attracts many people's views and opinions on new music. This genre of music will be mainly rock/alternative and indie but a mixture of all types and the charts of today. I will also include new artists upcoming in local areas for instance my friends who are in bands and have had a music video shown on a music channel and to also advertise MySpace as a way of communicating new music across to young people.