Rough Front Cover Sketch

Design Ideas

Holly and I have discussed the magazine title and contents of the cover. We came up with the name 'Crisp' and also explored lots of different fonts for the magazine. We discussed the layout and all the other things that will be on the cover.


Timescale: Our deadline is the 7th October which is a week on friday. Between now and then we have 7 lessons to create and produce our student magazine front cover. By the end of this week we will have and edited photograph that will be used on our cover. We will also have started our layout on indesign.


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Magazine names: CRISP

                              YOU

                          

Story Lines: Canteen food getting you down?

                     Top 10 Driving intructors in town.

                     3 easy steps to giving up smoking.
                     How to sustain a relationship for longer than a week? Is it even possible?
                     How to get drunk fast.
                     Find your perfect guy.
                    10 easy steps to stand out from the crowd.
                  
                        

              

Picture Ideas: A student holding big book in front of a tree.
                        Book held up to a persons face with just their eyes showing, with a comic book
                        being held behind the book only just visible.         
 
                        

Preliminary Project Planning

From our research we have decided that we want our main picture to be the CVI and take up the majority of the front page. We will use minimal colours and font sizes to make it easier for the reader to see the different stories and topics. Our masthead will probably be in capital letters which will reduce the ascenders and descenders making the magazine look neater and easier to read.

Preliminary Project Research

 'College Lifestyle' is a college magazine, that uses various techniques to attract the student audience. The masthead of 'College Lifestyle' attracts attention by using a bright primary colour. It is in capital letters to make the magazine stand out more reducing the ascenders and descenders making the magazine look neater and easier to read. . The large picture takes up the majority of the front cover and is the main focal point (CVI) of the magazine. The layout is fairly minimal and the writing is rather small and uses a sans serif font. They use different colours for each titles, so you can easily see which titles go with which stories. The pink 'splat' callout immediately attracts the eye because it is a completely different colour to anything else on the page.

'College' is another magazine aimed at the college/student audience. This magazine uses very similar techniques to 'College Lifestyle' with the large picture which is the main focal point on the front cover and the short snappy titles and subtitles. The main title is also in capitals and in a bright primary colour. This magazine does not have a callout and does not use as many different colours or separate fonts, the front page is much more consistent throughout.





The 'Xbox 360' magazine is not a college magazine but it is still aimed at the same age of people. At first glance the front cover seems to be quite cluttered but if you look closer the layout and content is rather similar to 'College Lifestyle' and 'College'. 'Halo Wars' is written in the same font as the actual game acting as a logo and a recognisable symbol for the intended target audience. Less text is used on the front cover compared to the two magazines. Once again the picture takes up the majority of the front cover and is the main focal point of the magazine. The number '360' stands out because it is in a bright colour compared to the background.

Media

I am interested in film and video editing. Hopefully after college i hope to make my way into this business by becoming a runner but also work shadowing and friend I know who is a video editor. Here is a music video I made a few weeks ago... :D

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