Preliminary Excercise

I have been asked to make a front cover and a contents page for a college magazine for the Preliminary Exercise. For my College magazine I have to originate everything, from all the photos going on to my magazine to the way the magazine is laid out. I am going to find two other college magazines and analyse them both stating the bad points and the good points of the magazine.

When doing my college magazine I will have to think about language, institution, ideology and representation. I would think about the language by the type of photographs I would want on my magazine and how I would collect all my photos. I would also have to think about the text on my magazine and make sure it stands out against the background on my contents page and my photo that will be on the front cover.
The institution of my college magazine is Wyke College, at Wyke there are 1300 students and are all aged between 16 and 19. 69% of the students at wyke are female. This links on to the audience of my magazine even though there is netball on the front cover it is not just a sports magazine it is aim at everybody at Wyke College. 
The ideology of my magazine will cover, respect, values and behaviour of Wyke and also the expectations that’s Wyke College have of their students. I will do this by showing positive images in my magazine and make sure the language respects everyone. This would also join in too representation, with the title and the photos which will represent the institution in a positive way.