First draft of "New Mag On The Block" 's front cover.

This first draft has the basic outlines of the concept for my front cover. My next couple of drafts wil include the development of photos and colour schemes.

Questionnaire complete! Research conducted around College and results are shown below ...

I have chosen to show the results from my questionnaire which was conducted around the college. Many students showed an interest in a new student magazine being produced. When producung the graphs and pie charts it showed that students would not be interested in as much educational information, the main attraction would be gossip and information from around the college. Colour schemes and price were not mentioned in the questionnaire but I can predict that setting the magazine at a high price would not produce many sales. There input proved to be great research.

Researching target audience

I need to find out what my target audience enjoys reading. Please will you fill out my questionnaire ?

Researching target audience

1. Male Female

2. Age

3. Do you currently read any magazines?

4. If so … what do you read?



5. How often do you read magazines?

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Other


6. Have you ever read a student magazine?



7. What would you like to see in a new student magazine?



Thankyou for completing my questionnaire.

"The Brief & Action Plan" ... Start Blogging!

This week, we have been asked to produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up as well as appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. this must be done using DTP and an image manipulation program. We must also produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate our grasp of DTP.

Action Plan

Week 1:

• Start a blog
• Conduct research on music magazines/articles
• Complete a questionaire aimed at your target audience
• Start mock designs of magazine cover

Week 2

• Organise and complete photos/photoshoot
• Designing layout of cover
• Use results from questionnaire to complete the above

Week 3

• Complete first draft of cover
• Continue desiging

Week 4

• Complete and finish pages
• Evaluation
• Answer other questionnaires

My action plan may vary slightly according to what is completed each week.