My task was to create a College magazine for Wyke College. To start with I researched the conventions of a front cover of a magazine. I found that magazines had a masthead, an image, a date, a price, a colour scheme, date line and a barcode. So when doing mine I tried to use as many of these conventions as I could. To do so I planned my magazine front cover by creating a digital mock-up. In this I planned where I would place everything, I think this was essential because it meant my work was neat, tidy and professional. For my main background image I took several photos of actual Wyke college students around the college site. I think this was effective because it was realistic to college lifestyle. I selected my favourite images and used them to make three different front cover drafts. One of my drafts was unusable because it was landscape and not portrait; thankfully I wasn’t planning on using this image anyway because it was difficult to see the text against the background. I could not decide which draft to use out of my first and last one, so I selected a few Wyke College students and questioned their opinion. After receiving my feedback I found that my last draft was the favoured draft and decided to use this one for my magazine front cover. This image is of a student smiling in the College library, in the background you can see other students working on the computer and socialising this is a good representation of college lifestyle and gives students the impression that college lifestyle is sociable and fun as well as hardworking. The student I used is smiling and has a friendly face which I think draws in the audience.
My audience would be Wyke college students because it is about Wyke and I would sell my magazine at the college. I was also planning on promoting my magazine around college by putting information on the Wyke College website and putting posters up around the college halls. I think this will help the students hear about the magazine and the features that are going to be included inside which will all relate to students and college lifestyle so should encourage them to buy the magazine.
Language: Medium close-up, best suited for the front of a magazine, can see his casual but nice college clothes, but also the detail and happy expression on his face, the background is the library this shows a good representation of a student and students life style. He looks very natural, confident and happy.
My audience would be Wyke college students because it is about Wyke and I would sell my magazine at the college. I was also planning on promoting my magazine around college by putting information on the Wyke College website and putting posters up around the college halls. I think this will help the students hear about the magazine and the features that are going to be included inside which will all relate to students and college lifestyle so should encourage them to buy the magazine.
Language: Medium close-up, best suited for the front of a magazine, can see his casual but nice college clothes, but also the detail and happy expression on his face, the background is the library this shows a good representation of a student and students life style. He looks very natural, confident and happy.
Institution: My media company would be Wyke because it is an in-house publication because it published in house by the college. This is because it is just relevant to the college so will only be sold and advertised at the college, the things that are featured in my magazine will relate to the things that are going on round Wyke college therefore would only need to be sold at Wyke, if you did not attend Wyke the magazine would not really interest you.
Ideology: The magazine cover is one of the students smiling in the college library. I think this is a good image to use because the library is really impressive at Wyke and we should be proud of it as a college, so by using it as my front cover it shows off our college. I also think as I stated above it is a good representation of college lifestyle it shows people working hard at the time as socialising and enjoying college. I think this sums up the college experience really well and over all gives a really good impression of Wyke and its environment filled with hard-working and happy students.
Audience: My audience is aimed at Wyke students because all the topics in the magazine are related to Wyke college students and will be advertised around Wyke College therefore would only be suited towards them. I would attract this audience by relating to things that would be going on in a student’s life, on my different drafts my cover stories included: the media New York trip, the Wyke party, the rugby match, the truth about drugs, how to prepare for exams and driving lessons. These topics would all appeal to students and would hopefully be filled with helpful advice.
Representation: I think my front cover does represent Wyke. Wyke students are all hard-working and dedicated however they are happy and sociable. In the library there is a mix of people working, chatting and as my main model I have him smiling at the camera to represent that he is happy at college. The background is also filled with computers and books which show all the resources and the impressive library has to offer. This was taken on a normal day at Wyke so is a good representation of the everyday life-style at Wyke.
When constructing this magazine I learnt that it is important to plan everything beforehand, I think the digital mock-up really helped when planning and kept my front cover neat and tidy. I also know that I need to think of a selection of different options and if I was to do my magazine again I would have taken more images so that I had a lot of different options to choose from. When constructing a magazine you need to always relate back to your target audience and what would be relevant to them and what they would be interested in, in order to sell your magazine. Overall I found that my magazine front cover was a successful representation of college lifestyle and gave Wyke a good impression, however if I was to do my magazine again I would try and be more organised and would have improved a few small details to make a more impressive magazine front cover.
Ideology: The magazine cover is one of the students smiling in the college library. I think this is a good image to use because the library is really impressive at Wyke and we should be proud of it as a college, so by using it as my front cover it shows off our college. I also think as I stated above it is a good representation of college lifestyle it shows people working hard at the time as socialising and enjoying college. I think this sums up the college experience really well and over all gives a really good impression of Wyke and its environment filled with hard-working and happy students.
Audience: My audience is aimed at Wyke students because all the topics in the magazine are related to Wyke college students and will be advertised around Wyke College therefore would only be suited towards them. I would attract this audience by relating to things that would be going on in a student’s life, on my different drafts my cover stories included: the media New York trip, the Wyke party, the rugby match, the truth about drugs, how to prepare for exams and driving lessons. These topics would all appeal to students and would hopefully be filled with helpful advice.
Representation: I think my front cover does represent Wyke. Wyke students are all hard-working and dedicated however they are happy and sociable. In the library there is a mix of people working, chatting and as my main model I have him smiling at the camera to represent that he is happy at college. The background is also filled with computers and books which show all the resources and the impressive library has to offer. This was taken on a normal day at Wyke so is a good representation of the everyday life-style at Wyke.
When constructing this magazine I learnt that it is important to plan everything beforehand, I think the digital mock-up really helped when planning and kept my front cover neat and tidy. I also know that I need to think of a selection of different options and if I was to do my magazine again I would have taken more images so that I had a lot of different options to choose from. When constructing a magazine you need to always relate back to your target audience and what would be relevant to them and what they would be interested in, in order to sell your magazine. Overall I found that my magazine front cover was a successful representation of college lifestyle and gave Wyke a good impression, however if I was to do my magazine again I would try and be more organised and would have improved a few small details to make a more impressive magazine front cover.
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