Planning

I plan to have my magazine and magazine front cover to be aimed for teenagers who go to college. Hence why my magazine is called 'College Calls'. I am planning to have my front cover to include a photograph of a student holding books to show he is a student who is there to learn. I will place this student in a working (college) environment to represent he is in a college. I am most likely going to make this person a male to include in my photo for my front cover and will make him dress in smart clothes (shirt and tie) to make him seem more professional and eager to learn. He will be holding books and smiling to show that he is happy where he is and is happy to be at college, a smile shows a positive attitude and positive aspects are required to engage my target audience. I am going to plan out my front cover and contents page and see what I feel suits my magazine the most to suit teenagers.

Location And Shots 

I have taken several photographs of this student in different shot and different locations, I have cut down the amount of shots I have taken and I am left with the three shots I feel are the most successful. I have looked at many locations to have as my foreground for my magazine. I have been outside a school/college, been inside classrooms and many others to find what I feel fits for the best background. I have decided the location of inside school premises is the best as it sends the message of students inside a working environment suits to my magazine of a college and with the positive body language of this student it makes the image look a whole lot more effective.

 This shot is a long shot which shows more of this student who is shown holding a book showing he is in a learning background whilst leaning against a row of lockers. This photo is good as it shows he is happy (smiling) whilst looking at the camera. Also the colours used are successful as he is wearing blue which relates to the lockers he is standing next to and doesn't cause a clash of colours. On the other hand this shows the student with one hand in his pocket and leaning against a locker which could be seen as unprofessional and is left with a wide space on the left hand side which isn't taken up by anything important but corridor space.

The location for this shot is much the same as my first photograph i have taken. The difference from this photo is that the shot is taken more closely more of a mid-shot, which shows from the waste and up. The student is placed in the middle of the of shot and shows the row of lockers on the right hand side which still relate to the colours he is wearing which is blue. I like this shot as it shows the student is happy in his surroundings and shows a lot of room for information in my front cover. This is a shot which has not been cropped to size to cut out different parts of an image. This is a natural image I feel doesnt need cropping and looks effective as it is.

This final photograph is in a different location which is a white background which adds good affect for a magazine front cover as it draws more attention towards the person in the photo and the information around it. He is still holding a book whilst wearing appropriate information but this location makes it seem a bit more unique because of the white background, the white background may be portrayed as 'shinning' towards something (the student). There is plenty of room around this photo for text for the magazine cover to accept and shows a lot more of the student standing tall, smiling.

Mock Outs

 This is a mock out of my magazine front cover I plan to do. I have changed some parts of the layout I have done in my researched. I have included a FREE aspect for the magazine which is included on the left hand side of the cover and surrounded by a star to make it seem more appealing and fun. My mast head is located at the top in the middle with a strap line underneath. On the right hand side includes my text about the magazine, text which will appeal the reader to be interested with my magazine and hopefully appeal to like and buy it. Below this is my bar code and price. Below my star on the left hand side shows more aspects which include news, and sports to hopefully interest the reader more to relate to some viewers interests more as sport can be seemed as fun and exciting for a lot of teenagers. The style of a front cover has to be realistic and appropriate so it is seen serious and appeals to different audiences for them to like the magazine. I feel the layout and aspects i have done and going to put in my front cover give it a much more professional look and shows the reality of college through the designing i have put forward.

This is my mock out view of my contents page. My contents page will be shown easily that is my contents page as 'Contents Page' will be bold in big font underlined and slightly slanted to make it seem more fun than rather it being in the middle in normal fonts, this way it is shown in a more interesting way. These mock outs give me a good view of what my actual covers would look like and gives me a good chance to plan them and make chances where appropriate like I have done in my front cover. On the left hand side includes of two photos, one being a long wide shot of the front of the college giving a good and positive view of the college and underneath this is another photo of a student in a science lab with goggles and a jacket on to give a science effect as this college is aimed for many subjects but each magazine series it will include a different picture of each subject each time. On the right hand side it shows the page numbers and the contents of each page. It shows the numbers and next to it what is on each page.