School Pre-lim Magazine

When making my magazine I wanted it to have an edgy feel that was aimed at a majorly female teen audience.  The idea of creating a magazine that was based on the fashion/textiles side of the school magazine was my first thought. And this eventually worked well for me when putting my cover/contents pages together. My magazine is aimed at the students of Lutterworth College. I used information that is relevant to students, and headlines that they would be familiar with. Therefore the audience of my magazine would be students or members of Lutterworth College.

I attracted my audience by using catchy headlines, free gifts, and discounts. Also I created a cover that was up to date. And that the audience could relate to. I wanted to use familiar colours and also colours that complimented each other.  I choose a colour pallet of black, white, and deep red. I used the teardrop tool on Photoshop to clone the colour of the models lips to use mainly for my text. As well as using Photoshop when putting my magazine together, I used Dafont to create my text. I decided to choose a text that wasn’t anything to structured or overly bold and that has a fun/young feel to it. I took inspiration from magazines such as Vogue, Teen Vogue, ELLE, Glamour, Nylon, and Marie Claire I found a lot of help from researching and looking at their magazines.

The articles the magazine contains are all addressed to students at Lutterworth College such as ‘Get the scoop’, ‘Apply yourself’ and ‘Canteen’ these are all relevant to students at present. As they are current issues and interests for this particular age groups and audience that I’ve chosen. I’ve also highlighted ‘Your space’ in the magazine this may allow students that don’t really get involved to eventually have a voice about the goings on at the College.

Whilst constructing my magazine, along with the skills that I’ve previously stated. I’ve learnt a wide range of skills via Photoshop, This has allowed me to manipulate and edit my own photos to the standard I would like them to be which would best suit my magazine.