St.mary's College Magazine Task

I decided from the beginning that my student magazine would have the theme of 'Healthy eating issues' as this is a common concern. I began firstly by taking a picture of an image relating to food: A vending machine with a student posing as an everyday 'junk eater'. I used a bold title to emphasise the name of the magazine to make it the most dominant feature on the page. I chose the text: Infinite Justice as i thought big, bold, chunky, cut-off text would appeal to teenagers: my target audience.


As all magazines have a barcode and date and price, i decided to add the same to make the magazine seem professional and life-like. I used a 'create your own barcode' website to create my mae-up 'SMC' barcode. The background of the magazine contains dominant colours such as the red vending machine and the different colour packets of sweets an crisps so it was hard to jut have simple black text, therefore I made the background of the date and price box black as to steer the readers away form the background and onto the magazine information which i made pink.


The colour scheme of the green and pink i thought works well together as they are both primary colours and will appeal to both a male and female audience. Next, I drew 3 similar sized boxes to contain my sub-headings. These sub-headings are vital to the front page, as they inform the readers about what's included in the magazine, therefore I used a green, 100% opacity background behind bold: Silom pink text. To emphasise further I bordered the text with the colour black. I have chosen to show three main sub-headings as not to confuse the page and to look professional as if the front page contains a lot of writing, my target audience: teenagers will be put-off into buying the magazine. I used the rhetorical question: What's new this week? To interest the reader (enigma) and make them hungry to find out what's in the magazine which is a technique used by many journalists and writers.


I made sure the girl in the picture was looking directly at the camera so that when the magazine is picked up, the reader can see her looking directly at him/her to encourage him/her to buy the product as there's more direct attention.


If i was to do this task again, i would probably have used photoshop to cut out the girl or vending machine as to draw more enigma to the page, also i would have changed the over-all theme of the magazine as 'healthy eating' isn't really an interesting subject to most average teenagers.