Initial Ideas

Title ideas

The title needs to be something fairly short, snappy and memorable. It would be a bonus if the title related to the theme of students and how they think.

• initialised title - eg. SBmag (student break) 
• Modernize
• StudyBreak

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House style

My student magazine will make use of either a quite powerful colour scheme of darker greys and aqua/cyan blue that will stand out against one another, or use a more sophisticated scheme of colours that are easier on the eyes. These could be softer colours such as white and light orange. I will try to avoid using colours together that might be hard to look at.

The magazine will be laid out very straight and solid, with no tilted or angled text or images. Shapes used will be squares and rectangles only. Few curved lines and a somewhat sophisticated but comfortable and relaxed look.

Fonts will be solid and blocky for headings, large and bold for the masthead and basic font for the main bodies of text.

Content

The magazine will contain different articles that most students will be able to relate to: Sections of music, film/TV, games, books, study, clothing, and things that are happening in and around the college.

Images

The central image on the cover will be a MCU of a student, possibly in or near the college. Facial expression will be very relaxed and melancholy, and the photo will be taken at eye level. One or two smaller images will be used around the edge of the cover relating to articles inside. The contents page will contain two or three photos relating to the most “important” articles inside.

Mode of address

I think that my magazine needs to be quite informal without being too informal. This means educated and semi-serious articles and writing style, but without use of over-complicated words. I personally find reading a passage with long complex words and structure to be difficult and even stressful, and with a student magazine it needs to be fairly relaxing and comfortable to read. 

Price

As this is a student magazine and will not have a huge amount of content, nor will the audience have that much money, it will be very cheap – about £1.