Magazine cover templates

This is my mock up of my magazine front cover. I have dicided on the title for my magazine to be Wyke XD. I have placed my title (masterhead) at the top of my magazine as it is a conventional part of a magazine also because it graps the readers attendion straight away. The colour of my masterhead is going to be a dark purple. I have chosen this colour because it will out from image it is placed apoun. I have also chosen the particular shade of purple as it fits in the theme of my college magazine name. The Wyke logo is in purple so I thought that I would carry this theme on so that my target audience will be able to asscoite with the magazine straight away. The background image of my magazine will be on the the following:

A person leaning on a wall looking up as if in a thinking pose.

A person looking at a piece of work

A person sat working their work

Someone dressed in a holloween costume

Someone sat happily enjoying themselves

The barcode will placed at the bottom right of my magazine as it will be out of the way so therefore it will not be the first thing the reader will see. Above the barcode I will put the website address for the magazine which is http://www.wykemag.co.uk/ . Along side of the barcode I will put the price. Underneath the masthead I will put the date and issue of my magazine.

College Magazine name ideas

• Campus Comfort
• College Life
• Wyke College
• Collage - brighting up your college life
• Wyke
• W

The college name that I am going to use on my magazine is Wyke. I choose this name because my magazine is going to be about Wyke and the people who go there. The colour of the font will be just like the logo for Wyke, a nice deep purple.

link to a website I used to collect some ideas for my college magazine

LIIAR

To help me design my magazine i will be using the key media concepts. These key concepts are:

Language
Language used in the media could be through the ways of: sound,lighting, images, text, costumes

Institution
The brand or company of a product for example channel 4, BBC and ITV

Ideology
A dominant set of ideas presenting itself as common sense of truth. Power relations are reinforced through ideology.

Audience
Who the product is aimed at. For more infomation on audience look at target auidence post.

Representation
 How the product is represented. Does it look cheap or expensive?

What I need to do

Orgainisation of models,locations customes or props

Work on layouts drafting mood boards spider diagreams

Evidence of time management.

How are differnet magazines portrayed

Differnet types of magazines ar portrayed in different ways.

Fashion Magazines
Fashion mags are normally portayed to be classy and desrible. They usually have a glamourous image on the front cover of either a celebrity or a model. Fashion magazines have a glossy feel to them compared to other magazines.

Gossip Magazines
Gossip mags are portayed the same as a fashion magazine. As well as having images of celebrities and models the also include gossip stoires about celebrities and audience stories some stories include "My husband left me for another lady"

Sport Magazines
Sport mags are portayed to look fast and engeretic and can make you start doing a sport. Sport magazines are one of few mags aimed at the male popultaion.

Game Magazines
Game magazines are the other type of magazines aimed mainly at the male population. They usually have bold print, bright colours and hightech graphic images.

School/College Magazines
School /college magaziones are not as brightly colured as the other types of magazines I named above. They are usually not as exciting as other mags and can be aimed at either the teachers or pupils. School/college magazines are usually however aimed at teachers rather then pupils though there are some indepent schools that aims there school mag at the pupils

The importance of a target audience

What is a target audience?
A target audience is a group of people a product is aimed at. A target audience can be categorised as gender,age,class,occupation. For example Vouge has a target audience of young females upwards.


Why is a target auidnce important?
Having a target audience is an important part of media. Being able to pick the correct target audience for your procduct is a crucial job as it could make or break your product. If you choose the wrong target audience for your product it could cost the company you work for millions of pounds. Some times however the target audience can be a little difficult to decide depending on the product such as a mobile phone.

Differnet types of magazines

There are many differnet types of magazines. Although they all have a different purpose and target audience each follows the basic conventions fro any magazine. The main types of magazines that I can think of are:

• Fashion e.g. Vogue
• School/College  e.g. Primary teachers
• Music e.g. NME
• Game e.g. Game
• Sport e.g. Sport
• Political e.g. The Week  
• Children e.g Cbeebies magazine
• Health e.g. Men's Health
• Gossip e.g. Heat