Preliminary Task - College Magazine

I think my college magazine looks more like a women’s magazine without the feature taglines. My media product uses the conventions of a school magazine by having clear house colours and having a medium close-up shot on the front cover. However I challenged the conventions by including the date and school name on the front cover, which I think works quite well and makes the cover slightly busier. I learnt of these conventions by analysing other college magazines aimed at a similar audience as I was intending. My magazine isn’t aimed at or represents any social groups because I wanted the magazine to appeal to all the students in the school. I want my magazine to be distributed via a platform online which all students have access to I think this will be more effective than handing out copies because of printing costs, and also, through interviewing people of this age group, they said they were not interested in reading pieces of paper given to them about the school, as they expect them to be dull and monotonous just like the school letters they receive from the college on a day to day basis. The students at the college are aged 16-18, all female which made my brand identity quite easy to recognise and develop.  I think the whole college would benefit from this magazine which is why it’s free and will be distributed by the school. I attracted my audience by questioning people of that age group about what they would want from a school magazine. By doing this preliminary task, I am now more aware on desktop publishing programmes and have learnt a lot about image manipulation and the effects. As I used Serif Page Plus and Serif Photo Plus to create and develop my product.