The document discusses the design choices made for a college magazine created by the author. Some key points covered include using a long two-word masthead in a bold font to stand out, a puff advertisement for winning an iPad to attract readers, and photos of both male and female students of various ages to represent the target audience. The intended audience is described as college and high school students aged 16-19. Methods to attract this audience included an attention-grabbing main headline and the iPad competition mentioned in the puff. Technologies learned in creating the magazine included the proper use of a DSLR camera and Microsoft Publisher software.

1. By JOE WILSON

4. Masthead
Strap line
Sell line
Puff
Cover line
Pull quote
Left third
Bar code
Banner
Date line
Price line

5. Masthead
Puff
Sell line
Barcode
Cover line
Left third
Main image

7. Masthead
My masthead, unlike a lot of other
magazine mastheads, is quite a long
worded one and is also made up of two
words which is different from the
generic masthead style. However much
like mastheads in big magazines and
most magazines I have gone for a very
bold look with the font, enabling it to be
easily noticeable to the audience.
Puff
The puff that I have created and used for
the front cover of my college magazine is a
very eye catching puff and stands out very
well on the front cover of the magazine. The
bold black out line and the bright red fill of
the puff contrast well with the background of
the front cover increase how well the puff is
able to stand out from everything else on
the page. This is good as the puff may
encourage people to want to have a look at
the ‘Win an iPad’ section as well as the rest
of the magazine.

8. The first reason that I choose this image for my
front cover pictures was that it showed that the
person was fairly high up and does have some
authority. This is something that I was
attempting to show in the photo as the person in
the photo is representing the schools head boy.
The way that the camera is taking a low angled
shot gives a very tall and powerful appearance,
when in fact the person was not very tall. Also in
the background of this photo is one of the school
buildings and this has also been shot from a low
angle, giving it the appearance of also being tall.
All though the picture may give a powerful look
to the student in the foreground, he is smiling
which takes away an strict or unwelcoming
appearances, which is good for a college
magazine.

9. Keeps to theme
List articles
images

11. Images
The pictures both on the cover of my
magazine and on the contents page
show males and females therefore it
is representing both of these.
Therefore the products is aimed at
both genders. Also due to this being
a 6th form magazine it represents
ages of 16 to 19 (the possible ages
of students.
Articles
The articles that I have used in the
contents and cover pages of my
magazines are mostly talking about
college related subjects. Therefore
they are representing students at the
ages of 16 to 19 years old. This also
includes young s16 year olds as I
have mentioned the leap from GCSE’s
to A levels.

13. The first of the institutions that may
distribute my magazine could be schools or
colleges. This is purely for the reason that
they would students there who either are
going to go to college or already have, and
feel like they need advice and help.
Another institution may be UCAS. This is
because there are always students looking
on UCAS whether they are in their last year
of college or their first, and they might see
the magazine as interesting and helpful.
The final of the institutions that may
distribute the college magazine that I have
made are social networks. Social networks
have thousands of students on them ever
second a lot of whom will have recently
started college and might be finding it
difficult.

15. The main audience of the
magazine that I have designed
would be college students and
GCSE students. This is because
the magazine would help current
students with difficulties that they
are encountering at college and
will help GCSE students to be
able to see what college will be
like. The range of age would be
from 16 – 19.

17. One of the ways in which I managed to
attract the audience to the magazine I have
created is by using the main sell line. I have
created this so that it is catchy and so that
people will ant to find out about it. By saying
‘Head boy reveals his secret to learning
success’ students will read it and think I want
to know this secret to success.
Another way in which I attracted the
audience with my magazine was by having a
puff. The puff says ‘Win an iPad’ will make
people want to look inside the magazine and
found out how exactly they can win this iPad.
This will also mean that they go through the
rest of the magazine and would hopefully
take an interest into it.

19. One of the technologies that I have learnt
about whilst creating this product is how to
use the DLSR camera correctly. This
includes using all of the right settings and
focuses to get the best quality photo that I
could get. When I was doing this photo
shoot I used the Cannon EOS 600D and
managed to use this camera whilst in the
manual set up mode, meaning I would have
to set the focus and lighting myself, this is
something that I learnt and found very
useful. Another technology I have learnt to
use and picked up some skills with is
Microsoft Publisher