MY college magazine work

The proposal

I will be aiming my magazine at future students of South Downs College. These students will be aged 15-19 years of age, year ten and above. My magazine will be about all the many possibilities students will be able to achieve at South Downs College and the future they will be able to embrace. Not only that my magazine will show off the amazing subjects and opportunities the college has to offer.

I have many ideas for my front cover but I really like the idea of using high tech equipment that will appeal to a lot of people because information technology is such a huge and important part of student’s lives, which will make it more likely to sell. I have a few Ideas for my title but at this present moment I would use a title called ‘SDC Optimistic’ because it clearly shows the meaning of the magazine. I will also need a student on my cover showing a positive attitude towards college and I will show this through positive paralinguistic’s in the student.

Fonts are a big part of magazine covers, catching the eye of they audience. I would use the font ‘Bank Gothic’ because it is incredibly clear and stands out. This is important to me because I know that with a very appealing and catchy cover I will have a much better chance of more sales. I will use silver or gray font colour to represent a future focused college and I will not make the font size too big and over powering because that may put the audience off my magazine. There will be a tag line on my cover however I will not make the cover look tacky and messy, its key to keep the cover looking impressive and well formatted. In my tag line I will not give too much away, making the audience want to open it up and read on.

I would publish my magazine at the start of the academic year. This is so that students starting year 10 will get it right at the beginning of the year. By publishing at the start of the year it gets students already thinking about college, about there future. If we are the first college they see a magazine for it will always be the college they think of first. I would change the magazine for seasonal events such as Christmas. By having special editions it shows a very positive and appealing college. No other college will do this, which will make my magazine stand out even more.

Subject choice is the main idea of my magazine so I will use images that fit that style. Although my magazine is subject orientated I would also use positive images of students hanging around college, enjoying life, enjoying education. I will publish my magazine every two months. I would not publish my magazine every month because it’s not a magazine that will have different monthly news. By publishing my magazine every two months it keeps the future students of South Downs College up to date on all up to date events and news.

The dimensions are very important to a magazine because you can be very creative with the sizing of the magazine. I shall be using a traditional sized cover with the dimensions of 8.3” x 11”. I will be making my magazine at this size because I find that small magazines have small text, which doesn’t appeal to my magazine design. Also I would like big images, which stand and are not small and insignificant.

In my contents page I will have an eye-catching title for each section of the magazine and I will use slightly different fonts for each sections, so the font represents the section in the best way. I will only use one colour for the text but I will use an appealing colour for the background of the contents page.