Analysation of college magazine

College magazine

The large word at the top of the magazine is known as the masthead. This is the name of the magazine and one of the most important images on the page because it never changes whereas most things change each time there is a new issue however the picture of the student is in front of it becuase he is the most important thing and so he is infront of the masthead.

The Skyline is the very top of the magazine this is a normally a small strip of infomation that just has a sentence on or just some plugs about things that will be in the magazine such as what bands etc.

Plugs are on a magazine all of the time, they are normally on the sides of a magazine but can appear on places such as skylines or straplines.

The splat sign at the top right in pink is a form of plug, but it has been made into this splat shape becuase it is a unique image, this is done to make it eye-catching and is sometimes used to advertise competitions such as winning an ipod etc...

In today's lesson we carried out the same work as the last lesson, coming up with ideas for our magazines. I created a spider diagram with many ideas to go with my front page on the magazine and I have made more progress with my rough layout and will have it finished by the next lesson so I can start on my main copy. Today we were told more about our contents page and what we must do for this, which is to make a page with a list of things in the magazine and some pictures to go with it. For my next blog I plan to annotate a school or college magazine for research.