2. 1) In my student magazine I have
demonstrated how I have used professional magazine
products to help me construct a student through
researching the different types of fonts and colours
which help attract the reader into the magazine which
helped me through finding fonts and colours that
were simple but effect and continued to use the
scheme of 2 colours in my magazine. Furthermore I
researched the look of how the magazine is displayed
with one image. However because my magazine is
targeted at students I reflected how the use of one
image looks doesn’t portray the target audience or the
genre but with the use of more than one person in the
picture it is more appealing and fun to the reader
which I have adjusted in my magazine and through
the use of layout in my contents page by making the
title look fragmented.
3. 2) The Magazine is aimed at teenagers that are aged
at 16-18. For the magazine there no initial gender for
the target audience because the magazine is aimed all
students with no particular colour or style concluding
that if the magazine Is aimed at all genders that it
will become more popular and it will attract more
students. They magazine itself differs from other
magazine because
•Cover lines – They are aimed at students that are
intrigued into those hobbies and activities
•Central Image- illustrates the students in the
magazine sitting down around college gossiping and
talking
•Tagline – ‘the spread of education and Gossip’
allows the reader to grasp the idea of whom and what
the magazine is for.
4. 3) For a student magazine because aimed for
college students; it should be sold in the college
because it allows the magazine to reach out all
the students. To attract the audience they should
be displayed in the library where they can be
seen by the students at the front desk and also
at the reception where they be viewed by the
students. Furthermore because the magazine
comes out monthly poster should be submitted
to allow the audience remember when the
magazine is debuting and where they can
receive one.
5. 4) The magazine is targeted at college students that
are 16-18; the use of not only using one model in the
central image and conversely using 3 models allows
the audience to identify with the models because that
is regular occasion to speak to friends and gossip
around college making the reader feel familiar with
the magazine with the usefulness of a blackberry
contrast with the books to show that are interacting
socially with use of education representing the
college.
6. 5) The designs for my target audience which are college
students are shown through my magazine for example:
•Masthead – Simple but effective because the spread
symbolizes the‘spread of education and gossip’ which is
demonstrated in tagline. Also with the asterix it illustrates the
magazines as logo and statement of what the magazine truly
represents.
•The Cover lines – Connect to the magazine because they
are educational but reflect social aspects which attract
students but it also informs the reader on the genre of the
magazine.
•Fonts – The colours that are incorporated into my magazine
are just blue and white because it blends in with the main
image and they stands out with the use of stroke. The colours
have illustrated in an organised fashion to represent the use
of each colour and make the magazine look sophisticated.
•The Main Image- The Image represents my magazine
because shows a group of young college students that are
interacting with each other and are just discussing work and
gossip which presented through the mise en scene of the
them sitting on a bench and them having the props of the
books and the phone.
7. 6) The software that I used in the construction
of my Student Magazine is Adobe Photoshop
and InDesign. Whilst editing my photo on
Photoshop it quite difficult in the beginning to
get understand the software but in the duration
of using the software it became easier and there
were no limitations or problems but using the
InDesign it was more difficult because less
familiar with the software and I was hard to use
the baseline grid and document grid.
8. 7) When editing my photo in Photoshop I
improved the picture by making it brighter and
look I cropped out some people in the picture to
create the focus on only 3 models. Also in
relation to constructing my main image with
the use of Photoshop I could anchor my
masthead head to rest on the house which was
in the background. However in making the
contents page the difficulty lies in using the
grids to anchor the text and the pictures.
