Planning the college magazine

In order to start my preliminary task, I was asked to conduct a number of potential titles for my desired college magazine. I wrote down a list of college magazine titles which I came up with. Below is a list of the magazine names I came up with.

- Priestley Press
- The Priestley Times
- Embrace-the-Pace
- Student Services
- Priestley101
- Priestley Post
- Knowledge!
- Get Quenched!

I also researched which conventions are commonly found on magazines in the industry. I did this, so when designing my own copy, I could use some of these conventions. I found out a myriad of things, including:

- Incentives
- Masthead
- Issue numbers
- Quotes
- Barcodes
- Cover stars
- Filler images
- Banners
- Strong colours
- Captions
- Pull Quote

After I decided a title for my college magazine and researched some conventions of magazines, I came up with ten articles that could possibly be featured in a college magazine. These would all appear on my college magazine's contents page. The list is as follows:

10 feature articles

-          About the college – pass rates, location, history

-          Map of the college

-          Senior tutor profiles – who’s in charge?

-          Term dates

-          Courses

-          Enrichment programmes

-          Social areas

-          Term dates

-          Student deals/discounts

-          Travel