The document discusses the author's reflections on drafting a college magazine and how it informed their drafting of a music magazine. Some key lessons learned from drafting the college magazine include using surveys to understand audience interests, including relevant and interesting content, and using color and proper layouts/images to clearly convey the intended genre and tone. Areas identified for improvement in the college magazine draft include better drawing of images, a more organized front page layout, and inclusion of color.

1. Reflection

2. • My new college magazine is almost similar to other college magazines
which both share the same similar content and features with my
magazine. A college magazine which my magazine relates to is Lewisham
college magazine; both magazines share contents that involve informing
students of important news about university opening days, news around
the world and even both magazine mostly informs the students about
what events are happening around their college. My college magazine has
a simple layout which is really suitable for teens in contrast to that
Lewisham college magazine has a simple layout style in its front cover in
which is really suitable for the students.

3. • My music magazine genre being grime; my magazines draft so then had to
look different to hip hop magazines. My music magazine really has a good
relation to flavour music magazine this is because my magazines draft
provides the same copy language which informs grime audiences. My
draft front page clearly indicates to people that I provide freebies and also
my magazine is clear about what genre it is because of the artist
portrayed such as wretch 32 this makes the audiences straight away know
this is a grime artist. Also the use of dark and dim colours in my magazine
connotes that grime is a casual and a normal genre. My examples
compares to the flavour magazine were they use freebies and make it
clear about its artists chosen and also they use dim colours to show how
grime is a casual and a normal genre.

4. • The conventions I used for my college magazine in terms of design is that my magazine provides a
consistent house style design thought my magazine e.g. the colours mostly used are yellow, white
and gray these colours create the house style of the magazine this also helps to make it visible and
clear to the audience that these are the main colour for the magazine. Also in terms of design my
college magazine provides an organised and clear layout in the magazine e.g. in the front page the
cover lines are organised clearly and makes it easier for the students to read and understand and in
terms of the contents page it is clearly organised simply laid out. In terms of mode address my
college magazine use formal language to communicate to the students rather than using slang
because my magazine is a college magazine in which my college provides a variety of students
which don’t speck slang so it is essential in making my magazine language formal. My college
magazine provides important information such as UCAS points and university opening days so it
could address students about what is happening in those areas also film adverts and celeb gossips
are also provided so it could help address students in what is happening in those areas apart from
just providing information about college it is also essential to provide information about other
things e.g. celeb gossips. In terms of use of imagery I used picture of students learning and pictures
of students normally this is because it could show that is a college magazine. I used a simple
typography style to the magazine so that the magazine can be clear to any type of student. I used
attractable and simple colours e.g. yellow, red; black and white this is so it could attract students
who like bright colour and students who like dim colours.

5. • When drafting for my college magazine it was clear to me what my fellow
students wanted in my college magazine just by following the ideas
chosen from my survey which they answered. So this made it easier for
me in drafting my ideas of how my magazine will turn out to be. However
in my college magazine draft I hadn’t added colour to my draft so it was
not really clear to me on how the magazine will turn out to be with colour.
Also from my college magazine draft I had not drawn the pictures
properly. So from just drafting my college magazine this has helped me in
being informed in the way to approach drafting my music magazine. I
would use my survey to help me get an understanding of what my
audiences want in my music magazine. From just creating a recent draft of
a college magazine it is essential that my layout of my music magazine
draft being correct because it provides an important guide towards
creating my music magazine. It is also handy providing colour to my
magazine draft so it would help me understand clearly in how my
magazine might turn out with colour.

6. • The successful thing about my college draft is that I have included a lot of
content in which my audiences find interesting in a college magazine this
information was all found from the survey I had taken. I could understand
which grime artist the audiences wanted to see in the front page of the
magazine I could understand what sort of articles my audiences mostly
wanted to read about (they had chosen interviews). However my drafts
really needs to have some work in drawing the artists properly, organising
the front page layout and even the double page spread layout needs to be
more organised. My magazine needs to provide colour so it would help me
imagine how it would turn out as my music magazine.