Unused Images For My College Magazine

These two particular images were going to be used in my college magazine, however, I decided to refrain due to a few reasons.
I decided to not include the picture of the student as it doesn't look good quality, and the lighting could have been better. It also looks quite boring and doesn't have much colour, and this would affect the magazine in the concept that readers will look at it and not find it appealing.
However, the image of the building is quite appealing. Saying this, it wasn't as good as my other options, which is the main reason I didn't include this in my cover page or contents page. The fact that the picture looks slightly 'messy' at the fact that there are things in the image that don't really look appealing, like the barriers and the working in the background.

Analysis Of My College Magazine

In this Prezi presentation, I have analysed what I have learned during the process of creating my college magazine, and how I can incorporate some of my ideas and aspects I have learned into my music magazine when I come to producing it. 

My College Magazine, And What I Have Learned

These are my final designs for my college magazine front cover and contents page. I used my flat plans for inspiration to create the final piece, but also decided to make other factors whilst actually producing it on photoshop. I used my own photos which I took of my college, and the uploaded them to either make a background or featured pictures on a page. I included the essential aspects like the sell lines, logos and even a barcode, as these are all essential to produce a professional and realistic magazine cover.
I have learned a lot from this process, including a lot of skills in which will help me to create my music magazine. I have also realised that creating a magazine, editing images  an creating effect is harder than it looks. I found photoshop difficult to use at times, and I feel as if I practiced more I can obtain its effect and potential.

College Magazine Flat Plans

These are my flat plan designs for my college magazine front cover and contents page. I have planned what I would want my front page and contest page to look like and feature by drawing and adding notes to explain what i want each feature to include. hopefully I can look back at these to help me produce my real version, and to help me make it look as professional and as real as possible.

My Expectations For My College Magazine

My expectation for my magazine will differ for each feature.  Firstly, my front cover should look intriguing, as the whole point of it is to catch readers attention, and to potentially try and get people to join our college. It must have appropriate colours that aren’t boring, and it should display a smiley image of a student, to show readers that students are happy here and enjoy life here at college. The front cover may also include headings and the name of the magazine, to present certain articles in the magazine and to tell people the name of the college and to present the college logo.

The contents page is also important. To start is has to fulfill its definite purpose and display all of the articles and their pages, to give people a general idea of what they will find in the magazine. Page references are important, so that the reader can easily find a specific article.  As the page doesn’t want to look boring, images would be important so that the reader can also look at different images that could possibly represent college life or college students.

Throughout the magazine, images are important so that the reader can understand concepts visually. I will include images of students, and also images of things like the college building, teachers, and classrooms.

For the font, it has to be readable and easy to follow, not something that people would find annoying or hard to follow. Some fonts would be bold, for headings and such, but when I will be writing in paragraphs it wont be as bold. I think that all of the fonts, colours, and sizes will stay the same in paragraphs, but possibly different in headings.

The types of features throughout the magazine will contrast between college information and life of students possibly. However, as we want to try and grab the attention of young people, and cant overload on the writing as it may be boring.

The articles could differ from talking about a certain students college life, or just explaining about college life in general for all students, there could also be articles explaining about different campus’ and subjects that are on offer for students.