Final College Magazine

For my College Magazine "The Prior Edition" cover page, I experimented with photoshop, learning new ways of editing, to help me through the making of my cover page. First of all I placed the medium close up picture of my friends and I onto photoshop then edited it. Then I chose a background and other images to put onto my cover page. I made my magazine an Autumn Edition 2010 so that it fits in with the season, which would influence people to buy the magazine because it is up to date. 

 

Sample Pictures for my Magazine

Heres a practice advert that I made on photoshop before I started making my college/music magazine.

Here are some picture ideas that I could use in my college magazine "The Prior Edition":



Photography

Here are some example covers of magazines that have been used to attract the readers attention by using direct mode of adress,setting,lighting,font style and font colours to engage their audience's attention.

The "KERRANG!" magazine cover uses the rules of three and the lead singer is obviously the one in the middle and the sleek pose helps convey their rock n' roll lifestyle. Mode of address can be defined as the ways in which relations between addresser and addressee are constructed in a text or image. In order to communicate, a producer of any text must make some assumptions about an intended audience; reflections of such assumptions may be discerned in the image.

In this pic Beyonce is seen as a stylish, woman. The"sexy" pose helps to attract the audience, who aspire to look as good as her.
A medium close-up shot of an individual will take in the body from the knees or waist up, and this is exactly the technique used in this image of Beyonce.

This picture of Ciara is a Medium Close-up shot, and the dramatic "sexy" pose helps to attract a female audience again, because stereotypically, women all over the world want to be seen as healthy, pretty and aspire to be "good-looking" like many celebrities.

 For my college magazine I used a hat as a prop and took some images for the cover of my magazine "The Prior Edition". Here are some of the shots:

Medium Close-Up

(From the knees or waist upwards)

Group Photograph

Medium Close-up with hat as a prop.

Full Length Shot

For this photograph I wanted to focus on the framing around the image.

One of the easiest ways to take a creative photograph is to compose your subject with a frame around it. A photographic frame is an object that acts as a border or frame for your subject. The frame directs the viewer’s attention to a particular subject or point of interest within the photograph. Frames also create perspective and show depth which I think this photograph shows.
I have used this full length shot on my college magazines' contents page.





Questionairre Conclusion

For my college magazine, I made five questionaires and handed them out to five random people to get information about the students at college. Here is a copy of one of my answered questionairres.

 

 Here is a conclusion of my results:

1. 3/5 christian, 2/5 other
2. 1/5 indie, 4/5 other
3. 3/5 sport, 2/5 education, 2/5 other
4. Lively,happy,dramatic,bubbly,cheerful,charming,excentric
5. 3/5 working class, 2/5 middle class
6. 4/5 have 4 people in family. 1/5 have 5 people in family
7. 3/5 like pop music. 3/5 like rock music too.
8. 1/5 don’t like fashion. 4/5 do like fashion
9. 3/5 aren’t religious. 2/5 are
10. 3/5 female. 2/5 male.
11. Carer for the elderly, mum works in poundland/dad works for police, mother is a mental health nurse, school teacher/oil rigger, civil servant/instrument technician.
12. 2/5 like to help, 1/5 is not, 3/5 don’t really care
13. 1/5 nobody, 2/5 friends and family, 1 didn’t answer and one said Leonardo De Caprio.
14. 4/5 sometimes, 1/5 said yes
15. Lady Gaga, Nobody,Morgan Freeman, Judi Dench and Alex turner
16. 4/5 yes, 1/5 no
17. Successful job, 2/5 said actor, 1/5 doesn’t know
18. Animator, Don’t know, actor, Actress and instrument artificer
19. 5/5 yes
20. 5/5 yes

Our College magazine readers are a mixed sex group all between the ages of 16-19 who fit into the social grade of BC1C2. Most of the readers are into different types of muisic and all of the reader’s are happy, cheerful and excentric. Most of the college readers also like fashion and are interested in religion. Another question I asked the students was if they had an idol or a celebrity icon. Most of the students said they did for example, Leonardo De Caprio was mentioned and big stars like Lady Gaga and Morgan Freeman. Most of the college magazine readers also consider themselves to be successful people, with a total of four out of five people saying they do.
College magazine readership: All at college studying to become actors, instrument artificers or hopefully becoming what they want to be. They are mostly from working class backgrounds, apart from two out of the five students who come from middle class backgrounds. All of the students would be interested in reading an article about rock music and also they say that they often act upon friends or internet recommendations, showing that students can be easily influenced by the media. When the college magazine readers were asked if they believe the stuff they read in the media, for example magazines or on the television or radio, they said that they sometimes do. However one out of the five people said they didn’t believe the stuff they read.

From my questionnaire, I found out that most college students are mature and don’t mind answering personal questions about themselves and their family. Also they don’t mind telling people which class they are from.

The reason I chose the questions I did was because they weren't too personal, and they were sensible for the students at college. Some people don't like to answer questions which are personal, so asking if they minded letting us know what their parents did for a living before they told us, was sensible.