Planning my college magazine.

Firstly, we discussed in small groups a few ideas which we thought were relevant to the contents and look of the magazine. We then shared them to the class and produced a questionnare, for other people to take. After each recieving five peoples answers, we shared them to the class, Shaun then made an overall questionnaire results sheet. I found this helpful as I found it gave me a good insight to what people of the same age, would like on or in a magazine. I found this information helped me especially for the contents part of the brief as after seeing the results I knew the most commonly wanted items for the magazine, and what kind of people would read them.
We were given a choice of about eight magazine covers to analyse on flickr, this can be found on my earlier post. I choose the magazine cover named 'soup', I choose this as I found the overall design to be very quirky, fun and original. I felt students would be attracted to this the most. On flickr, I sectioned of each part of the magazine cover and wrote what I thought the item could resemble, or how it was effective.
I went through a few stages of planning my magazine and contents page before coming up with a final outcome. Firstly, i looked at the results of the questionnare and took into account what students rated and what they didn't, I took this information into account when planning my cover. I drew a rough magazine cover sketch, and figured out where to have my title, what was going to be on the front cover and the layout and what pictures to have. I did a quick annotation of this, including what photoshop techniques I was going to do. For my contents page, I tried to choose a contents page which wasn't very buzy, as I felt my front cover had a lot going on and I wanted my contents page to be more low key. Once I found one which suited this, I wrote down the photoshop techniques I knew, that could fit with what the contents page had on it.