The document provides information for planning a college magazine. Research was conducted through questionnaires and interviews with students. Key findings include that the target audience is female students aged 17-18, the magazine should be produced monthly, focus on college events and gossip, and cost no more than £2 per issue. The magazine will use informal language and eye-catching design to appeal to students.

1. Research for college magazine
Target audience for the magazine-
My magazine will be aimed at college students aged between
16-18 it will contain relevant information on the college and
will be full of interesting news and gossip which will
hopefully encourage people to buy it as it will look very attractive
and vibrant .

2. Questionnaire
1) What is your gender ? 7)What would you like in the magazine?
Male Gossip
Female sports news
college information
2)How old are you ? national news
16 all of the above?
17
18+
3)Would you buy a school magazine if was produced? 8) What would you like to see if there was a school
Yes magazine produced?
No Information in and around college?
Latest international news?
4)How often would you like the school magazine produced? Celebrity gossip?
weekly
monthly 9) Does the price of the magazine if expensive
put you off buying it?
5) How much do you pay for your magazines on average? yes
0-50p no
51p-£1
£1.01-£2
£2+
6) what genre music do you listen to?
Hip hop,
rock,
classical,
house
other

3. Interviews
Having interviewed three students that attend Archbishop Ilsley college I have
found out what they would like their college magazine to contain.
Kirsty says…
‘I defiantly think there should be a college magazine containing
information on up coming events that are relevant to the sixth formers
as it would be a good way of keeping up to date with what the college
is offering.I would however be hesitant to buy it if it was any more than
£2 ’.
Jordan says…
‘If there was a college magazine I would want it to be to the point making it
easier to flick though but still take in all the information given.I would like it to
contain sport related information and activities that would encourage my
participation in college sports and news that would interest me’ I wouldn’t like
to pay more than £1.
Hannah says…
‘She would like the college magazine to be written on a monthly basis containing
all the events that are available to the sixth former,after school classes,revision
session date e.t.c almost like a second diary but more fun and less formal to
read bright eye catching text is essential as that is what appeals to me about
magazines’.

4. Annotated covers
Big bold title attracting the audience
Small title
telling the reader
what it is they will Image filling the cover
find inside the emphasizing the content
of the magazine
magazine which is sport
The title ‘A and the age range it effects.
successful year’ is
in a different
colour text and in
a different font
making it eye To be involved in
catching to the
reader also there sport is seen as
there have placed very
the text just positive in and
above the image around
of the girl shooing school,that is
the ball which is why they
the first place the Small incite on what is have portrayed it
reader looks in the magazine in a positive way
meaning it is with smiling
important healthy looking
information. children

5. Annotated covers
Keeping in with the house style
Big bold font advertising the
Bright artistic colours to name of the magazine.
attract attention to the fact
that the magazine is about
a students art work.
They have put their college
slogan to make it more
official to them.
Making the magazine and
the college more
aspirational.
Emphasizing the The image of the girl smiling
word ‘TALENT’ shows that she his feeling
gives us an incite of very positive and happy
what the magazine about her work that she is in
may contain it also a good place of learning and
helps create a better advertises the colleges good
understanding of the name as it has been
theme of the portrayed in such a positive
magazine. light.

6. Analysis…
Having gathered all the information from the questionnaire I produced
it is clear to see that the target audience of a college magazine
would be gender -female aged 17years to 18years.Majority of the
students that took part in the survey say that they would pay no more
than £2 for the magazine as the content would be college related and
contain limited information and gossip about the out side world
,I am hoping to produce a magazine that appeals to both genders.
My magazine is not going to be written in a formal language which will
hopefully encourage the students to buy it as it will be in there language.
I want it to be well set out and eye catching with intriguing stand out
titles.Also the students voted that the magazine was produced on a
monthly basis so I shall be sticking with that and delivering it on the
1st of every month.