So firstly when i started my contents page I wanted to give it a college feel, so i made the background on photo shop using some effects which gave it an wooden chrome effect. After researching numerous magazines I thought that the best title for a contents page was "In this weeks issue", this was because i felt it sounded better than anything else and it was clear and established what the page was about. The topics that i made up were based on what people said they would like to see in the questionnaires that we carried out. People asked for interesting topics, so one i was particular fond of was the "Why are college party's now canceled" i thought this was a topic which students would like to know the answer to as it is still very unclear to most students. I then changed the fonts size of the topics to bigger or smaller depending on how important i thought the topic was so the more important the bigger font it got and the less important the smaller font it got. I think my contents page needed more images on because when i look back it seems very boring and contains to much writing, a fair share of writing and pictures is needed.

 

The image that i used for my front cover is a picture of my friend Richard, i took it whilst we were on holiday in Turkey, i wanted him to look astonished at his surroundings. To get these surroundings we traveled up a mountain and to these ruins and we found the perfect setting for the photo. I also took pictures of him lazying round the pool but felt this image was more suitable as it was more cultural than just him laying by a pool. The title for the magazine was simple i just called it the official magazine of the college, and i chose yellow for the font as its the main color for our college logo. The two texts displayed on the front cover were the two that i thought would interested the reader the most, so the holiday story was obviously linked with the front cover image and the other text was to do with college news. I kept the color scheme simple and only used 3 colors black, green and yellow, i didn't want to make the page to busy. I also added a recycling image down the bottom left i thought this was good because recycle is good for the environment and college should encourage these values to their students. Finally i added the price of the magazine, i came up with the price using the research that we gained by doing our questionnaires and most people said that they would buy the magazine for 50p.