Preliminary Task - College Magazine

For my preliminary task I was asked to design a possible college magazine. Therefore this magazine had to be within the target audience of 16-19. We took our own images for this magazine so we could apply them to our chosen sell-lines. I thought a lot about the target audience when I was designing, I made the magazine £1 so it would be affordable to students, and also picked a unisex colour scheme of green and orange, which also match the files that the model is holding on the front cover. My lecturer liked the way I incorporated the colours of props into my magazine, and said it was a 'stylish design technique.'

To improve this front cover I would make sure that the sell lines where filling in the white space more than overlapping the main image, and also experiment with different for sizes and styles. 

 

My contents page was quite basic in terms of design because I didn't have very much experience with Photoshop.

I still kept the same colour scheme and added more images which linked to the sell lines, I also put the page number on the image it referred to so the reader could easily find it. I think I could have improved this by making the sell lines smaller so I could fit more on, and also make sure that the images I included arent stretched out of proportion. I liked the background of the contents, to do it I used the blending options to make things  more opaque but still lightly visible.