Research and Planning: Front cover and contents page design

Here are my front cover and contents page design drafts that I did as an idea of what my magazine ma look like. The front cover has a Masthead that is 'hyde clarendon news'. This is so that students would know who the magazine is aimed for. I have done it in lower case because in the Hyde Clarendon logo it is all lower case letters so I did this so that it is similar to the logo. I picked the name because in my response videos I was told to name my magazine 'Hyde news' so I have done but I have put 'hyde clarendon news' to make it more relevant to the college. I will also make the Masthead pink as it is one of the colours that I was told to use in my video responses. On my college magazine I have used a long shot image for my main picture but when I come to make the college magazine on Photoshop I am going to have a medium close up image of a college student holding a book to show that they are a college student. I have the cover lines on the left hand side of the magazine. I have looked at my response videos and I have picked cover lines that are relevant to what they said. One person said that they were into technology so I put in a cover line about the new iPhone 6. Someone also said that they wanted to see the latest news so I added a cover line about a college student being pregnant. I also put a cover line about the new college being built in Ashton. Finally I made a cover line about University because most college students are interested in going to university. In the top right hand corner I have put a date of when the magazine was issued. In the bottom left hand corner I have added a barcode. I have done these two features to make the magazine look more professional.

Next is my contents page. Here on my contents page I have the font matching my front cover this is to show that it is professional and consistent. I have also used the same font for my stories as I have done with my cover lines on the front cover. I have added images that match the stories on the contents page to show what the stories are all about. I have added the pictures to make the students more interested in the stories. The colours that I am going to use are going to stay the same with the background of the contents page being black, the masthead and stories to be in yellow and the information about the stories to stay as pink. I have stuck with these colours because in my feedback videos the college students said to use black, yellow and pink also these colours are there college colours in the logo so the colours have relevance to the college. This is so that it looks professional. The stories that I have chosen are relevant to the feedback videos this is so that the students would also be interested in the magazine. I has told to include stories about technology and recent news in Hyde and college news like the new college that is being built in Ashton.