Rough front cover sketch

Design Ideas

Will 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.


Masthead:

Fonts:    
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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.
                
                        

            

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 and Planning

'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. The large picture takes up the majority of the front cover and is the main focal point 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 college magazine, that is aimed for the eye of a student. The Masthead of 'College' is bright and bold which attracts attention, they have used capital letters to make the magazine stand out more. This magazine cover is very similar to 'College Lifestyle' with the large picture in the centre, which is the main focus. The writing is rather small and it uses sans serif font. They use a bold colour, such as black for the writing, because there is a white background, so the words stand out, which attracts people, because it is eye catching.









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.

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