After thought and research i have come up with some primary ideas of my magazine. Firstly i will note the colour scheme, i have decided that i will use purples and greens for my main theme, i decided on these colours because they look good together and as i am planning on using bright shades it will ensure that the cover looks especially interesting. The cover will show a MCU of a student enjoying student life.The masthead will use a graffiti bubble font, as this is quite different and is ascociated with younger adults. I want the cover to have big bold straplines, some of which inverted, to ensure that they are noticed. The cover will have a puff with the full name of the college and the date of issue. i want my main cover to connotate the following points, and i will do this using the conventions above; i want the reader to think that the college is academic, fun, lively, energetic, professionally exciting and mainly, that it is worth going here. The fonts on the cover (excluding the masthead) will follow through out the magzine, to keep the main theme constant, this will also apply with the colour scheme.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Influence from my research
From my research i have found that most college magazines use formal photographs on the front cover, i don't think that these reflect college life competley truthfully, yes, college is an academic place but all students here like to have fun too, and i will use what i have learnt from the photos on my cover. i have also noticed that each magazine tends to follow a colour scheme, these always look good and show a sense of formality, i will use this idea to make my magazine have an edge of formality, but, hopefully with the colours i will use, it will look exciting and interesting. on the other hand i have also noticed that the magazines i have looked at dont pay much attention to the straplines, whereas i want the straplines to be bold and interesting to look at.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Research
This magazine poses a very formal front. To denotate the picture, it shows a girl, looking very relaxed lying on a table, with her head resting on books. The masthead is a sans-serif font, although, it is quite a formal one. The main attention of the cover is the coverline, "class of 2009", prehaps indicating that this magazine is intended for people leaving the college. The colour theme is a relativley plain one, using mustard yellow and white, which connotes a formal attitude. The straplines are small and look quite unimportant. The picture of the girl does look very relaxed, the background of the picture indicates to us that she is lying in a quite extravagant room, prehaps having a break from studying, also, she is resting her head against soem books, also indicating this. Also this picture may relate to the "class of 2009" coverline, she could be leaving the college, and this picture is showing the rest she is taking now that she has finished college. The straplines are quite dark and dont look very important, showing us that the picture is the main focus of the cover. 
The first things that i notice about this cover are the mast head, the largest strapline and the picture. The masthead is a sans-serif font and it is very large, drawing our attention to that immeadiatley. The girl in the picture looks very interested in what she is doing, the main picture obviously relates to the main strapline "Doing science at Beloit". The other straplines look rather insignificant in comparison. The cover suggests to us that this is a very academic college, and that the students are very intellectual. It also suggests to me that the students who read this magazine may care more about thier studies than anything else. The main picture causes us to sterotype, but on the other hand it causes us to challenge sterotype as society normally relates males to science, therefore this picture has a positive feminist effect, this may not have been deliberate. Also this picture may attract more female readers. 
The masthead on this magazine follows a sans serif font, this dennotes a less formal type of magazine, which in turn connotes a tpyical college based magazine. The red/orange colour dennotes a sun like image with the blue background to give it that sunny affect, this cannotes an inviting colour as the red/orange portrays a more warm feeling to the magazine to go along with the main picture. The main sell dennotes a young girl playing tennis revealing a large area of her backside, behind the picture you see that the crowd is full of young males who are all eager to see this young girl. this cannotes a tpyical attitude of college boys which is to chase after girls. Notice that the teacher/ umpire has been blocked out by the writing maybe to portray a level of disobedience. The lady in the 'C' of college denotes an low dressed women who is wearing a mortar board. This maybe cannotes a different way of looking at education, a way of showing boys that learning isnt just for the stereotype 'geeky girls' however for the more attractive ones. This magazine also portays a very stereotypical view that all boys are gazing over the girl playing tennis.
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