My college magazine is for Wyke Sixth Form College and includes everything I need for my college magazine to attract and persuade my audience, which is college students, to read the magazine. After talking to my target audience and thought about the feedback I was given and what I think about my magazine, I think that using the Wyke logo for my masterhead was a good idea because, it shows the students going to pick it up and read the magazine that they automatically know it is targeted at students from Wyke. Also if I didn’t use this as my masterhead the top of my magazine would be quite plain, boring and they wouldn’t know who the magazine was for or about. My Brand image promotes the college in a good way because she is a happy student, holding her work and by looking at it makes the people think that all the students would be happy to be in college like this. The person I used as my model is looking directly at the camera so it’s almost like it contexts with the audience and its eye level. Also it is a medium close up of her where she covers half the front cover and shows the readers it’s about the students and made by students. The background of my front cover is a picture of one of the buildings from college. Apart from my main image I haven’t included any other images but, had writing over the top of it which is information that will be in the magazine. I added another thumbnail image but, it was a picture of a student card advertising them to students. In my contents page I used the same colours and images so you could see that it is part of the same magazine and so they match.
On the front cover of my magazine I don’t have a price I think that students of Wyke shouldn’t have to pay for a magazine that is produced and made in college by other students so in the top right hand corner it would have a price if I charged people but, because it is free it just says FREE in the corner. To grab the students, audience, attention I put parts of what will be in my magazine on the front page to grab their attention and make them want to read more. To make my front cover I used Photoshop and got use to using this to improve my front cover from the drafts I did to my final front cover.
I chose this magazine to produce because I am a student at Wyke and I can relate to other students at the college and know what they like and would want to see in a magazine. It is also easier for me as I had easy access to cameras and able to take photos of the college to use for my magazine. Also I knew what sort of events happen around and in the college such as, college parties to trips and matches in sport to include on the front cover. So I knew what sort of thing would grab the attention of my audience.
I think my magazine is interesting because it advertises your NUS student cards to attract the students attention but, also includes college parties from the past and what parties there will be in the future for the students to look forward to. It also includes last year’s students talking about their results and how they prepared to help the students reading it. I think I included fun, social sides to college but, how not to make exams scary and nervous.
I researched a lot into what type of people my target audience would be. I included different age groups, like year 11’s and college students, the types of subjects my magazine would attract and also different religion because the college has people from different ethnic backgrounds. I couldn’t be biased towards students of the college so used the college colours and targeted to magazine and both male and female students ages 16-19. I used language that would grab people attention of both sexes. After considering all different target audiences I came to a decision that it would be students at the college and would be free because they wouldn’t be able to afford much with them been students at college and not in full time employment.
My college magazine had to represent Wyke Sixth Form College in a positive way to others that would be reading it. It shows the students in a positive way that they can all go out and have social events with others from the college but, also be prepared for exams and achieve the best. I still had to consider all the different social groups in college and include all of them to target them as well. I tried to include all of them and not put them in a negative way and didn’t want them to be stereotyped in anyway because I believe Wyke Sixth Form College is a great college and the students of Wyke help to make it a great college. I think I could of included a bit more about sport in my magazine because I don’t think it targets that social group, that is one thing I would change in the magazine if I was targeting everyone. Overall I think I represented the college in a good way through my text and images on both my contents and my front cover and it gets the target audience, the students, involved and shows them they’re a part of it and show others what Wyke Sixth Form College is about.
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