Preliminary Task: Brief Initial Idea’s My first thought of my cover was to be bright and colourful so it attracts people and they are interested into the magazine enough to pick it up and take it away. The c olours which I were most interested in including were green, red, blue (dark and light) black and white – this gives the audience an impression of the magazine as neither just for male or just for female. For my picture I wanted a picture of a happy student n ot deliberately posing but smiling to give a positive reaction to the audience. I wanted the picture to be outside/ near greenery, which shows its more natural. I wanted to have about 2 or 3 puffs on the cover but I wanted them different colours because otherwise they would look like they link whereas they don’t. Proposal My magazine isn’t specifically targeted for a gender but I chose to have the target age as 16-20 year olds because it is the average age group for college students The typical content will be about fashion (boys and girls) and also gossip with the college My cover lines will have to say something, which engages the audience and also a topic which everyone is interested on. My mast head is called ‘College Insider’ because I feel it stands for being within the college and it represents that the magazine is the in’s and out’s of college. I wanted to use a bold font b ut which was san serif but I wanted it to be a brighter relaxing colour. I looked at italic font for all of the cover lines and mast head but I didn’t think that it looked together enough as it looked a bit messy. The magazine is a autumn issue because of the clothing the student is wearing in the main image (jumper) yet there is bright green grass and t rees still around from the summer.