Preliminary college magazine

This is the final product for the preliminary task. The front cover seems to show an array of conventional content that one may expect to see in a front cover of a magazine. One feature that you would expect to see is the brand of the college magazine which is very clearly expressed by having a font and colour which goes well with the white background. The magazine seems to have a colour scheme of red and white in terms of text which seems to go well when used in the appropriate areas, the colours were due to the popularity of them when there was a questionnaire posed to others about what colours they thought would be attractive in a front cover. The coverlines used are those which would be expected from a college magazine as it talks about various aspects of college life and other interests of people who attend these places. By having a black circle in the magazine with content inside, this may attract the readers as the circle and the background is very contrasting to all the other colours that are posed in the front cover and so therefore it would attract the reader. Also, there is a selling line at the bottom of the magazine (may not be conventional as they are generally shown at the top of a front cover) which is in capitals with the intention of entrancing the reader into having a look at the magazine. Moreover, it seems to be conventional by having a barcode and the price shown. The conotation of this magazine is that there are various interests that college students have through the fact that there are various topics in the coverlines.

The contents page may be seen as unorthodox in one way or another but in many respects is conventional. One such way which shows it is unorthodox is by having an image of only one model and the image takes up the whole page. On the other hand, it is still set in some sort of fashion which looks similar to columns that are usually deployed in most content pages. Also, the text is still kept to the same colour scheme as the front cover showing that the two are linked. The sub-sections are highlighted in red to alert the reader of the section as well as the fact that each section is clearly separated by a line of space which adds to the clarity of the contents page.