The document discusses the key elements of a magazine cover including the masthead, central image, cover lines, barcode placement, and use of conventions like eye contact. It also mentions generating ideas for a college magazine targetting students, with contents including information for students. A draft front cover and mock contents page are presented for evaluation.

1. Preliminary taskJessica Fletcher

2. ResearchOther school and college magazines

3. MastheadDate and priceCentral image with eye contactCover lines

4. MastheadCentral image following conventions by looking straight forward and creating eye contact with the audienceCover linesBarcode – following conventions by having it at the bottom in the corner.Buzz words

5. MastheadCentral Image looking straight forward making eye contact with the readersThe rule of thirds has been used by having the image in the middle and the information in the 1/3 and 3/3 regionConventions have been used by having the bar code in the bottom corner with date and priceUsing the colour red is conventional to attract the readers eye

6. MastheadDate and issue numberThe numbers are in bold to stand out to the readerThree different images have been used to break up the pageSubtitles for each category for ease of access for the readerBanner line in conventional colour red which draws in the readers eye

7. Planning

8. Ideas Generation

9. The target audience for my college magazine will be students because it will include information that may concern the students and it will also be easy to access as it will be distributed at college that magazine may also be read by staff and parentsTarget Audience

10. Front cover draft

11. Front cover

12. Mock up contents page

13. Evaluation