Preliminary Task

To begin my work I looked on the internet via google search to find British College booklets or handbooks to try and find a professional piece that I could base my work on. This however became difficult as I could only find American University Magazines so, as a way of finding out how to go about creating the handbook, I found an existing Isle Of Man College handbook and implemented the same style into my final piece. I also looked over past students work to gain further knowledge into making my piece.

I decided to go with a winter theme from the start of this project mostly because the time of year we are currently is winter. I figured I would not only be able to find a model who would be wearing specific clothing that identifies that it is winter, but also because I found it easier to represent winter in a subtle way whilst integrating it in with the standard things you would see on a school/college magazine.

I decided to keep the colour scheme relatively simple, but had the main colour of pale baby blue run throughout the entire piece to correlate with the winter theme. I added little circles across the blue background to further represent the theme whilst also creating something that looks good on the eye.

The title "St Manxie College" is wrote in white over the blue background and all the fonts were done in a chalkboard style which gave the impression it was drawn out of snow, whilst also having something eye catching for students to actually pick up and read! (which is the main goal)

I used generic titles at the bottom of the piece of " free competition" and "new canteen menu" so it is obvious to students picking this magazine up that it IS in fact a magazine, not something to just be thrown away. Also in my research I found that on all pieces there we're titles on the bottom of the page rather than covering the model.

The model was chosen due to his clothing. I wanted to go with the winter style of wearing warm clothing, though being really happy to be at this college. The background I chose was similar to the colour I used and this works really well in the final piece. I took a lots of medium close up shots of this model and picked this picture due to his actions of having his "thumbs up"


The contents is relatively standard, using the same colour scheme as the front cover and keeping the same font. I have space for relative images and descriptions of whats is going to be on each page.