Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task I created a front cover and contents page for a college magazine. I used Microsoft Publisher to do this because I found that it was the quickest and easiest program to use. However for my music magazine I plan to use Abode Photoshop as I want to spend more time creating it and want to edit it in more detail.

I decided to call my magazine “PRIDE” because the college’s core values are partnership, respect, innovation, diversity and ethnicity. As these values are important to college I decided that the acronym “PRIDE” was a fitting masthead name. I chose to use the colours purple and white for my colour palette because they are the colours used at the Bede campus in the City of Sunderland, which would be where my magazine would be available to read. I want my magazine to look realistic and fit in with the colour scheme already in place. As purple and white are already familiar colours to the students in Sunderland they seemed the perfect choice as they could encourage them to read it.

I chose to use the colours purple and white for my colour palette because they are the colours used at the Bede campus in the City of Sunderland, which is where my magazine would be available to read. I want my magazine to look realistic and fit in with the colour scheme already in place. As purple and white are already familiar colours to the students in Sunderland they seemed the perfect choice as they could encourage them to read it. I hope that the colour scheme will create positive connotations due the similarity with the college’s colour scheme that is already well known. I have discovered that the white text on the purple background really stands out and catches the audience’s attention.

This was my flat plan for the front cover.

This was my flat plan for the contents page.

This was my final front cover.

This was my final contents page.