Final front cover

Final contents page

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Magazine final front cover

This is the final cover page that I created and produced for my college magazine on Photoshop.

Magazine final contents page

This is the final contents page that I created and produced for my college magazine on Photoshop.

Kerrang magazine

In order to become familiar with adobe Photoshop, I recreated a front cover of a Kerrang magazine. In this task, I had to make it look as similar to the original copy as possible.

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

Sketches of front cover and contents page

This is the design of my front cover for my college magazine. I included a number of conventions that I originally researched. For example, I added some incentives across the page. In the banner (another convention I originally researched) at the top, it is visable that I have included incentives. Also, in the poof (the star shape splatted the page), I have included another incentive as this would be eye catching and persaude the audience to purchase a copy of the magazine. I also inevitably accommodated a masthead, as this is compulsory in the industry, otherwise it would be difficult to establish what make the magazine is. In addition to these, a cover star is also present on the page, in the centre - a medium close up. This is due to the fact that it will look much more aestetically pleaseing with images as opposed to a plain white background. Filler images are also dotted across the page. Other conventions of a magazine I have included on the plan are quotes and a blue and purple colour scheme to keep with the bold colours that magazines carry.

This is the design for my contents page. I included quite a few images, to make the contents page look classy and to show what the college has to offer. I have also rounded the corners off the images to create a 'neater' and 'calmer' look. This will be achieved with the help of Photoshop. The discourse of the large box to the left will be a list of the ten features that I came up with prior to sketching my contents page. Page numbers will be available to guide the reader to their chosen destination. These page numbers may also be replicated on some of the images (e.g. Social Areas may have a picture of the Wicked Cafe). There are other conventions I have used such as headers etc.