College Magazine Preparation and Drafts

I have come up with three names that are basic and quite easy to remember for a college magazine, these are PPC, Pursglove News and Prior Life. All these names are associated with our very own college. For this magazine, am going to be making it about 28 pages long with a certain amount of pages dedicated to each topic. I am going to be dedicating 5 pages to adverts, 8 pages to music, 4 to news, 1 page on offers, 3 pages for real life, 4 pages to interviews and 2 pages for fashion. I have chosen to have quite a long magazine as most people preferred reading longer articles in my results and this is obviously going to need more pages.

This was my first draft for the college magazine and the colour themes for this were based on the most popular colour in the results which was black and white. With red and yellow being the second most popular colour I decided that with black and white being very plain that I would incorporate some colour in the magazine and I went with the second most popular colours as you will be able to see further on in my drafts.

As you can see here this is where I chose to put in the colours red and yellow and also some images and a colour background for the front cover. From here the magazine doesn’t change much apart from the layout and some extra images added. I have also included a white liner to the title on the cover page so this would stand out against the grey background. I have also chosen to go with a grey background as grey links white and black together and gives a good tone to the pages and this also makes the other cover lines stand out from the background.

As I said before I change the layout of the design as you can see to the left and I think that the way this has been laid out makes the cover look slightly fuller and also makes the cover lines stand out more to catch the attention of the readers. Before I could change the contents page I had to decide what other images I could include on their which I thought was difficult as I hadn’t really planned out my cover page as well as my front cover which I should have done. This would have also made the contents page look fuller.

This is my final magazine cover and contents page and as you can see it looks more fuller. I have changed the layout once again to add more things like the x-factor logo and giving the image alone on the contents page a heading and made the page look like it has more contents to it than before. The new front cover has a hardly any white

space for more cover lines which I think is a good thing although it only has 5 cover lines I still think this magazine could draw in attention. Yet again I have also included slightly more colour with the purple logo which makes that specific article stand out against the rest and this is because of the college colour theme is purple so I thought I would also include that and the yellow explosion stands out as it is the brightest thing on the magazine and would also draw in more attention.