Summary

For my college magazine, I chose the image of Sophie holding a book in the library. I chose this because I felt this best suited the college magazine as it's inside the college and shows college facilities. I also chose this photo as it's a medium shot which shows half her body and her face. She is smiling on the picture which also gives the magazine a friendly and somewhat happy feel.

I chose the headline "Bede Bulletin" for my college magazine, I chose this because it's alliteration which gives an upbeat tone to the magazine and also because I thought it was something which addressed its whole audience. I chose the put the header in the Sunderland College logo colours to promote the college theme and also create a theme for which I myself could follow for the magazine, this is also why I put the Sunderland College logo alongside the header. I chose the colours for my whole magazine based on the Sunderland College logo, blue, teal, black and white. The font I used was Arial Black this is because I thought this was an attraction to the eye yet wasn't too fancy or took any attention away from the main image or the stories on the front page.

I  chose the stories for my magazine based on some current events which are happening in the college e.g Costa and Enrichment. I also chose them because I feel this is what would most appeal to the audience. I chose to put them in Comic Sans because this font is understood by most people and doesn't distort words in any way which keeps it easier to read. I chose to put what I felt would attract a lot of readers in a coloured box so it's more eye-catching as this is what I feel would attract the most readers. The rest of the stories are in a simple black or white comic sans font to contrast with the background.

I put a twitter and facebook logo on the front of my magazine as I believe this would also appeal to the audience as most teenagers have either or both of these social networking sites and would therefore be of interest to them.

For my contents I followed a similar layout for the contents page and for the exact reasons I have explained above.