From the masthead to the puff, my magazine represents a informal and free-form layout, which connotes young and relaxed. The cover lines and splash are angled, not confined to a certain alignment or trying to fit around my central image. Many magazines use this style if they are informal as it expresses how relaxed and informal the magazine is. My colour choice is consistent and I have used a single bright colour (red) with two duller colours (black and grey) to make the red more expressive and outstanding. My chosen fonts are both sans, which is a less formal looking style of fonts, the fonts are more fun and interesting, connoted by the artistic styles of the fonts. The mode of address I use is as relaxed an informal as anything else, including lots of exclamations and simple wording. In combination with my font choice and colour, the magazine seems like it will be much more appealing to a younger audience as intended.
The content I have created for my magazine represents students, mainly around the teenager age. It is not directed to any gender in particular. The articles inside cater to a range of different hobbies and interests, making sure everyone enjoys the magazine. This represents students as people with a broad range of interests, and the more covered, the more chance of sales. For example, my central image shows a student male playing a guitar, connoting creativity and appealing to those musically inclined. However, the splash also contains video games and movies, so you can immediately get a feel for the contents of the magazine. Text is kept short and simple, as I feel people of this age would rather not read heaps of text on a small reading session of the magazine. I do not intend this magazine for people to sit down and spend an evening reading, as I see that as something older people would do with magazines that cater to their interests. The text I have used could be seen as stereotypical, saying all teenagers are into video games and music etc. and there is not a single mention of a book or other medium people may enjoy, but what I have put on my magazine caters to the majority.
I think I would like my magazine to be purchased within the college, as this would mean a higher chance of students seeing it, and that is who the magazine aims for. It would have to be on sale somewhere more interesting than say, the library, or the front desk. An outside company could possibly publish it, one that is linked to other magazines that this audience is interested in, such as Bauer media group who publish “Kerrang” magazine. However this may be more expensive. It should still be sold in college rather then shops though.
In the process of creating this project, I have learned a great deal about things I never had any knowledge on before. This is the first time I have used a Mac computer to construct a project. In the end, I still prefer the PC, but it did help me learn how different, and how similar, Macs function to PCs. InDesign, the program which I used to construct the final design of my magazine cover and contents, was actually quite simple to use once the basic functions were learned and I had ease creating with it. The layers system helped keep the work organised, especially with the large amount of separate text boxes near one another. I do remember the program having issues when the file was crowded, simply moving an object slowed the computer right down to a near full-stop, making precision placement of object near-impossible. The Photobooth application was also new to me, but again was very simple to use and achieved exactly what I wanted, the files were easily placed onto the blog post with no issues. The main thing this taught me about was Blogger. I had never read a blog properly in my life, let alone create one. Blogger was incredibly easy to use but was also extremely effective with its system. Blog posts are easy to find, read and create. The only annoying thing was the method of getting the InDesign work and Word Processor work onto the blog. The file had to first be converted into a PDF file before then being coverted again into a JPEG. This was easy to forget how to do the first few times.
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