Planning my College Magazine

Research I underwent in prder to plan for my own College Magazine cover included looking through existing real magazine covers such as The London Metropolitan's "M", "Soup" (where you can see my flickr analysis in another post), general magazine's such as "Men's Fitness" as well as a survey taken on real students.

The questionnaire that was carried out revealed; if people would prefer a paper copy of a magazine or an e-magazine, which showed that people actually prefer paper copies, as well as if people would actually pay money for a college magazine if there were one, where most people said yes. It also revealed the most money that people would pay for a college magazine (which proves to be around the £1 - £2 range which I then incorporated onto my cover and also the themes that should be covered in a college magazine - which as a result, helped me decide on what the cover lines should be.

When planning my contents page, I browsed through various real existing magazines of a variety of genres ranging from such as Heat!, Vogue and Men's Fitness. Ultimately, I ended up using Men's Fitness as my content page's inspiration incorporating the format in where the pictures went, and how large the text was. I chose Men's Fitness as a source because it was very organised, formal and simple, which are elements I thought would be most appropriated towards a college magazine.

When planning the cover of my magazine, I again looked at existing magazine's, but this time instead of looking at general magazines I specifically used and analysed college magazines, which included "Soup" and "M." An analysis of soup done on flickr is linked in my blog, and my informal cover lines are sourced from this magazine as it seemed very effective with it's jokey nature in attracting attention from readers and engaging them.