Preliminary Task
The Proposal:
The target audience is going to be between 17-20, which is a very small age range but this is the age of college students, I will try and aim it towards both genders but it may sway towards primally a male audience as i am a male and i am writing it, so my interests will come out more.
The magazine will primally be about college life and the lifestyles students have, so mainly about music, fashion, video games, movies, etc written by students for students. Furthermore the magazine will include news about events and trips within the college. The Cover-lines could be "Gig Guide for Oct 2012", "Christmas Gift Guide", "Revision Help", "How to Survive A Levels Exams"
I have decided to simply call the magazine "SDCM" which stands for South Downs College Magazine. I have chosen this because it's short and you can easily put it into a hash-tag for twitter (#SDCM) I hope for magazine to be heavily involved with social networking such as twitter, Facebook and Instergram .
I want the font to be bold and simple, much like the one my mac has decided to give me. (Silly mac). But this font is easy to read and looks simple. I want the logo to be the letters SDCM to be bold and black on a white background, but with all the letters almost overlapping each other.
I would publish this magazine at the beginning of every term, to give the writers time to gather information and write the articles also it allows people to submit information such as gig dates and general college information. There would be two different types o f format, a physical A5 version, A5 because it's less bulky than an A4 and it cost less to print, and a digital copy for tablets, phones and laptops.
