Preliminary Task: College Magazine Final Product

 

This is the complete version of college magazine front cover. I have use the colours scheme of gold, white and black. I use these colour schemes because the gold represents number 1 and winner. As a college magazine we want the students to succeed and achieve their goals. That’s why the main cover line ‘Your Future’ is also in gold like the masthead as it is very important.

For my front cover I have conformed to the conventions of a magazine. This is so that the college magazine is easy to use because student probably won’t spend a lot of time on the magazine so the conventions will help.

For the front cover I have used a medium shot of a female student. There is direct address so it shows her confidences and personality. This is to give courage and strength to other students who aren’t confident and we wouldn’t want the front cover to have a student who looks apprehensive.

 

 

For the contents page I have separated the different section with the lines. After looking at examples of college and university magazines I have a layout of what it’s going to look like. The title of the contents page is a black box and I have put cross white lines for the background on the box. The contents page was really plain and empty therefore I have a digital art background design to create this fuller feeling. By doing all these designs it would appeal to the college students because it looks cool.

 Also because of the limited space I only used two images and they are both students of the college. They both like students because they are either holding a folder or they look like they are doing something. Without these photos the contents page wouldn’t look like a college magazine unless you read the content so the photo was rally effective.

Textual Analysis of College Magazine



Looking at this college magazine cover there are all the convections of a normal magazine. They have a masthead, cover lines, barcode, a plug and other convections. This magazine has a colour scheme of yellow, black and white. The magazine masthead is College Lifestyle and has a yellow colour scheme. I think they use yellow because it is a similar colour to gold which could symbolise 1^st place. Also the main cover line ‘Dancehall’s Bright Future’ relates back to this colour too. The word ‘Bright Future’ and the yellow symbolises that meaning.

The main image is a medium long shot of a college student. In the shot there are props like the school books. Also he is wearing a cross necklace, this could symbolises his work ethos to show he is serious about college. Looking at the magazine we can tell what genre of magazine this is and who they are targeting their audience at. We can tell that this is a college magazine because one, it says College style as it masthead. Also use of props and the cover line says that it is a college magazine. The target audience they are targeting at is college and university students or those who will benefit reading a college magazine.

The plain black background which matches with his clothes gives this sophisticated look to the whole magazine. He looks proper and smart. This magazine cover could be trying to represent the college. The smart sophisticated look and professionalism could be what the college is trying to portray itself to the audience. They are trying to attract students to maybe join their school and get them to buy the magazine.  

College Magazine Photos

Shooting Plans

Things needed for this shoot:

-Model

-Camera

-Tripod (not necessarily needed)

-Costume

-Lighting

I have decided to shoot this in school because this is a college magazine therefore having the school as the background will be good because we can see the schools environment and maybe pick off of something about the college for instance the good relationships between the students and teachers. For this shoot I will be shooting a variety of shot so that I can get choose between varieties to use in my magazine giving me more options in what pictures to use instead of having limited pictures. For the front cover I will be shooting a medium long shot of one person in the frame.

Some of The Best Photos

Image 2: I quite like this photo and I think I could use this for the front cover the only problem with this photo is that I can see a student in the background. For improvements I could reshoot the photo again but without the student in it this time.

Image 5: this photo is a medium shot of two students. The requirement for the front cover is a medium shot of one person therefore I can’t use this for my front cover. Instead I could use this in the contents page as a sub image. I think this photo looks really nice. The photo doesn’t look too overexposed and it’s not too dark.

 

Image 7: in the photo you can just see him standing in the corridors in school. I don’t think this would be suitable for the college magazine front cover. It doesn't look professional; it’s more like a random photo of a student in the corridors.

Image 8: I have chosen to use this photo to be my front cover because this photo is a medium long shot which was what I needed to use for the front cover. Also the direct mode of address and the whole look of the photo make this a good picture to be a front cover of the magazine.

What can be improve about this image is retaking it but without the sun ray in it but this can be easily sorted out by going on Photoshop and cloning that part of the photo so that the sun ray isn't there anymore.

Image 11: I won’t be using this photo because the photo looks like she is just standing there behind a white wall having her arms folded behind her. It doesn't look that good and professional. Also the lighting in the photo isn’t really that good because it kind of looks a bit dark. 

Image 14: I think I could use this photo in my magazine because the composition is good. However he isn’t directly looking at the camera so I could always use this photo as a sub image in the contents page for instance. He is a holding a school folder. The use of this prop makes it look like it is about a school because the folder reminds us that.

Image 15: in this photo the sunlight make the picture look really bright and the composition of the image would make a good front cover of the magazine however because of the use of props in this image, (the camera) it doesn't really look like it’s a college magazine. It kind of does however it looks more like a photography magazine than a college magazine.