Preliminary Task - Final Product

This is the final product of my College Magazine for my preliminary task. I stuck to my flat-plan template to an extent, however, certain aspects were changed. For example, the rotated angle of the main-sell line was changed, and more cover-lines were added to fill up space. I did not include a banner in the end, as that would be more suited for a music magazine as opposed to an educational magazine, and i had no clear ideas of what to put inside of the banner. To improve this if i did it again, i would alter the main image to make it less blurry, as the resolution changed slightly as i uploaded it to photoshop, which proved to be a technical difficulty. I chose the Mast-head "College life" as i felt it was simple, yet effective and relevant to the magazine, and the typography used is very jovial/un-informal without looking too immature for a college magazine. This is important as the youngest readers of this magazine will be 16 years old. I included the college website in the bottom right third to give the reader more information on the college.


This is the Contents page i have created, following my flat plan to the best of my ability. Some changes from my plat plan were necessary, for example, due to the restrictions of the image dimensions, i needed to overlap my title with the main image. This is because the image was too large, therefore  the contents title would have been too low down if i kept with my original plan. 

Because of this, i did not include a pull-quote, as it would make it look too overcrowded and busy towards the top of the page. I have included all the basics of the contents page, including, a main title, a main image, advertisements, contents titles with numbers, secondary images, etc, etc.