St mary's college magazine hand drawn contents page

I have drawn my own St Mary's college content page to go with the St Mary's college magazine cover that I did in InDesign.
I have created this magazine content with the help of another magazine that I looked at.
My content page will be colourful and bright which will encourage the readers to read on and not get bored.
As you can see there are some images under the main image with page numbers, this is to make it easier for the reader to find the page and also the images are there to make the magazine more appealing to the reader.

St Mary's college magazine

After I did the InDesign training, I had to create my own magazine cover. I did't have any instructions to help me, neither did I have a cover that I could copy. I had to used what I learnt in the InDesign training to make this cover.

First I had to take a picture of another person. Then I cropped the picture so I took out the background and kept the picture that I needed. After that I put a St Mary's logo on the magazine cover, that I got from internet. Finally I chose the font and the colours that I wanted to use and typed out the text.

I have used different colours because in the research that I did of the different magazine covers, they all used different colours to make the magazine stand out and also to make it appealing to the target audience/reader. I also didn't change my font, I used the same font all the way through also because of the research that I did on the magazine covers.

InDesign Training

I have created this font cover of a magazine, in InDesign, by following instruction that the teacher provided for us. In addition to that the teacher also provided the same cover, so we knew what the cover needed to look like.

I had to use different tools which I have never used before and I didn't know any thing about. It was a bit confusing at first because I have never used InDesign before and I didn't know which tools did what.

After doing InDesign training I feel more confident using it as I know what the different tools are used for.

Analysis of the RAP-UP magazine cover

This magazine has a well known famous R&B artiest, who people what to know more about as the main front cover image. They have used different colours to make the magazine stand out and also to make it more appealing to the target reader/audience.

The font style of this magazine is the same and also the font size of the headlines is different, depending on what would attract the target audience/reader, and the more interesting headlines font size is bigger than the rest of the headlines.

I think this magazine would appeal and attract its target audience because of the use of colour, headline stories, and because of the R&B music artiest they have decided to put on the front cover of the magazine.

Analysis of the vibe magazine cover

This magazine cover has  a well known R&B music artist as the main image and also as the main story. The use colour is very good as there have used range of colours instead of just using one colour. If they only used one colour it would be bit boring and not very eye catching and in addition to that it would not appeal to the target readers/audience very well.

The text on the cover has the same font style through out which works quite well. The font size is different, the more interesting and the main headline font are bigger than the other stories, this is to make them stand out so it will appeal to target audience.

From looking at this front cover I have decided that I will also keep my front style the same through out my magazine as that would be best for my magazine. In addition to that I will also use at least two different colours.

Research Of Branding

I am going to analyse some music magazines so then I know what kind of text, language, font and font colours I should consider using in my magazine. I have looked at other magazines also to give me ideas for my own. In addition to that I have also looked at the layout of the magazines so I know what my music magazine is supposed to look like and also so I know what am supposed to do and what kind of stuff/things my magazine should have.

I have looked at and researched music magazines like ebony magazine, VIBE magazine and SHOUT music magazine. After looking at these magazines I now know what my magazine should look like. They has also given me ideas for what I should put on my front cover and what kind of text I should have on it.

Ideas

I have decided to do a music magazine for my AS media studies coursework.

I have decided to do R&B music gener because I like listening to it and I think most of my peers do as well. Now a days R&B music is very popular with young people. I have not yet decided on the name of the music magazine. I will have to look at other music magazines as an example so I know what I need to include in my magazine, and also to get ideas from them.

I am doing a music magazine because I listened to lot of music myself. I am doing R&B music genre because I like listing to the R&B music artist like Chris Brown, Usher ect..