My proposal for Preliminary task

Who are you aiming your magazine at specifically?

-       My magazine is going to be a college magazine aimed both girls and boys who are students at southdowns and are labeled as ‘mainstream’. This means they are into current popular trends including fashion and music.

What will your magazine be about?

-       my magazine will discuss current goings on in the music, fashion and entertainment industry, alsongside this it will talk about socially current things in and around southdowns college, such as under 18 club nights, student events, exam guides and other social events.

What are your ideas for cover lines?

-       I want my coverline to compliment  the magazine and image used on the front, EG: ‘the ‘dope chefs’’ (dope chef is a clothing brand), ‘beauty and the beat’ (could discuss what music people taking a beauty course are into)

What title have you decided on and why?

-       I have decided on calling my magazine ‘MAINSTREAM’ this is because it will immediately address the target audience and give an insight as to what the magazine is going too contain articles on.

What fonts do you want to use and why?

-       I plan to use simple and basic fonts such as; ‘American typewriter’ and ‘Helevetica’

What are your ideas for taglines?

-       I do not plan to use a tagline as the magazine will include totally different content each issue, making it difficult to create a line to bring all of them together.

When in the year will is be published?

-       the magazine will be published in the spring and autumn, it will forecast forthcoming trends and current trends in each issue. It will also include information on anything that needs to be known as to what is going on around the college site, and events happening off. EG; reviews on trips and and articles on general life around the college.

What kind of image do you expect to put on the front cover and how will you go about getting it?

-       on the cover I plan to use an image of a student at Southdowns in a educational type background. The clothes they are wearing should in in fashion and show the potential audience a stereotype of who the magazine is aimed at (this being the person on the cover).

How frequently will it be published?

-       the magazine will be published twice a year, once in the spring discussing current spring time trends, forecasting summer trends and informing the reader of upcoming events that are happening in and around the college. Not only will trends be discussed, there will an exam survival guide and revision tips and hints, I chose the exam theme as students in the college are beginning to prepare for exams at this time of the year. Then in the autumn the issue will discuss autumn trends, forecast winter trends, inform the reader of upcoming events and how to deal with a new life and new year in college. Tips on settling down and guidelines of do and don't s would be helpful to younger students. 

What are the dimensions of the cover?

-       My magazine will be a standard 8.5”x11”. this is the standard size for a magazine.

What images and colours would you use on the contents page?

-       as my magazine is based around current trends and tie dye is a large trend right now I would use a multi coloured tie dye background for my contents page and use white boxes and black text to highlight the information of the page.