Unit 3 Magazines: LO1: Prelim For College Magazine

LO1: Prelim For College Magazine

College Magazine Examples:

Front Covers

Common Conventions:

Text follows consistent house style colours, never varying beyond 2 colours in total.
Most feature a medium close-up or medium shot of the models
Each feature some form of ideal self through connotations of success in costume and props (law books on the last example and an athlete on the first)
Contain relatable cover-lines that appeal to the target audience with examples like 'make money on campus' and 'should I break up with my major' in a peer-peer mode of address
Most mastheads follow a lexical theme/field of school with language like 'student' or 'college' as a part of them which clearly denotes genre and target audience
Mastheads are positioned behind model; they're well established brands

Contents

Common Conventions:

Sans serif font makes texts easier to read therefore, appealing to a teen/student audience
Most use photos within contents pages of student/young adult models to appeal to the audience
Clearly defining sections of content pages with colour to categorise text, making the page more accessible; sub-headings categorise information
House style colours are consistent with what is shown on cover, no more than 3 colours are used across these too
Layouts are top-bottom, left-right
Include the logo of the institution

InDesign

InDesign is a desktop publishing program; this would be industry standard software that can create print products such as novels or magazines.

The contents and double page spreads of my magazine will be laid out on InDesign, the assets created in Photoshop and organised in InDesign.

Column Gutter - Spaces between columns

Slug - Bookmarks articles in magazine

Bleed - The tolerance you give the printer for images without compromising the layout (i.e. a page with large margins will have more bleed/tolerance than an image which takes an entire corner and could be cut off in printing).

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