Contents Page - College Magazine

This is the contents page for the college magazine, the photography was taken by myself and photoshop was used for editing.

Front Cover - College Magazine

This is the front cover for the college magazine. The photography was taken by myself and put together using photoshop.

Front Cover First Attempt

This image is my first attempt of the front cover for my college magazine, it was edited on photoshop. Firstly the magic eraser was used to erase the background, then the normal eraser tool was used to erase any other bits that were missed and to make the edges neater.

College Magazine Style

For my college magazine the style I am choosing is The Fashion Edition as from my questionnaire I discovered that fashion aswell as music is very important to my audience. It will include lots of pictures as this is something that was wanted by my audience and the fashion included will be of varied styles as this also came out as something that was wanted by my audience.

Audience Research Questionnaire

I conducted a questionnaire to my college magazine audience to find out what they wanted from a college magazine and what kind of people they are, here are my results;
Audience Research – Questionnaire

1-What are your religious beliefs?

Christian  Christian  Agnostic  Atheist  Muslim 

2-Where abouts in the UK do you live?

North East  North East  North East  North East  North East

3-What are your interests/hobbies?

Music, fashion, family  Partying  Music&Writing  Playing guitar/music  Go-karting

4-Would you say you have a particular fashion sense or style?

Vintage  No  No  No  Yeah

5-Who is your biggest influence in fashion?

Fearne Cotton  Friends  No  No  Gok Wan

6-What is your favourite band?

Jimi Hendrix  Michael Buble  Muse  Joy division  Pendulum

7-How would you describe your personality?

Ask people who know me  Funny, friendly, caring  Different  Friendly  Funny

8-What are your political views?

None  None  Unsure  Labour  Labour

9-What is the typical yearly income for your household?

Don’t know  Don’t know  Don’t know  Don’t know  Don’t know

10-What education have you had? (E.g. describe school, college etc)

School/College  School/College  School/College  School/College  School/College

11-Do you want to go to university? Where?

Maybe-Don’t know  Yes-Edinburgh  Yes-Durham  Yes-Don’t know  Yes-Unsure

12-What is your nationality?

British  British  British  British  British

13-Do you aspire to have your own house/car in the future?

Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes

14-Is respect important to you?

Yes  Yes  Very  Yes  Yes

15-Which is most important to you, friends or success?

Friends  Success  Friends  Friends  Success

16-Would you mind telling me what your parents do for a living?

Teaching  ICI, Coast&Country  Supervisor, Unemployed  Teacher,Contractor  Property Developers 

17-What you aspire to be doing in 10 years time?

Travelling  Married&Kids  Teaching/Writing  Earning loads of money  Earning millions

18-What do you think is most important in a college magazine?

No Comment  Free stuff/vouchers  Variety  Pictures  Pictures

19-When you go out shopping do you usually buy the same brands?

               Yes          No

No  No  No  No  Yes

20-Who is the most influential person in your life and how do they influence you?

Mum&Dad  Mam  No single person  Friends  Omid Djalili-Comedian

The questions I chose to ask in my questionnaire were selected to try and find out as much as possible about my audience. My first two questions, ‘What are your religious beliefs?’ and ‘Where abouts in the UK do you live?’ were used to find out a bit about the person which is part of the 'Reception Theory’. Questions 3 ‘What are your interests/hobbies?’, 4 ‘Would you say you have a particular fashion sense or style?’, 5 ‘Who is your biggest influence in fashion? which is part of the  ‘Two-Step Flow Theory’,6 ‘What is your favourite band?’& 7 ‘How would you describe your personality?’ were asked to distinguish their taste in music and fashion. The rest of the questions were asked to find out about their background and to find out which social grade they belong to, however question 18, ‘What do you think is most important in a college magazine?’ was asked so I could find out what is important to people in a college magazine and what my audience would like to see in the college magazine which is part of the 'Uses & Gratifications’ and ‘Hypodermic’ theories. I used a combination of open and closed questions which gave the participants the opportunity to give their own opinion and it also allowed me to get the answers i wanted or needed.
From my results i concluded that people can be quite unsure about what they mean or who they are, this could be due to the age of the people who were asked. Also i think that it seems that people were saying what they wanted to be or thought they were rather than who they actually are as in society we've put labels on everyone so much that people feel they don't want to have a label so they be 'individual'. I also think that the answers could have been answered to please the researcher and the participants answered with what they thought I wanted to hear rather than the actual truth.