I scanned in my contents page and my front page that i had drawn up by hand in my media lessons.
Front cover.
The title of my magazine is SDC (Sussex Downs College), i choose this because its relevant and easily recognisable. I have put this on the top of my front bage in big letters and made it clear to the reader.
I have a central picture in the middle of the page on my front cover. This will be a picture showing my main theme of the issue. I have put this here, so people can immediately see what genre the magazine is and constant and reliable readers can recognise the magazine from glancing through shelves.
Along the side of the front page there are lots of sub story's and sub titles, these are here to show less important, however they may still be important to a minority of readers who find the story's relevant.
In the top right hand side it shows the price and a bar code on the magazine. I have placed this in the top right because it is the most convenient, in my opinion, place to put it. It fits in well with the main title and helps to stand out. There are not so many places that i could have put it and keep the rest of the front cover in context.
Contents.
My contents page has a fairly unique design. It is a list of the book and what it contains, i have done it in a list manner because people see list's every day and can easily read and understand them.
I have a image on easy line of the list to help explain and show what the content is and entice.
At the top of the page is the college logo title, this is on the front page. It is there because people can connect and relate with the front cover to the contents page.
The Contents page is fairly simplistic, i don't want to complicate and confuse readers and i believe most of the time, simple and neat pages are more interesting than pages that are packed full of pictures and text, after all i want to attract readers, not repel them.
