College Magazine- Task 1 Research

Evaluation on research

From my research I discovered that most first year students did not know where to find a college magazine however would purchase one. Both first and second year students would like to hear about food with the college and about deals within other shops in Henley. They would also like to hear about road closures and anything that would affect their journey to college. This topic may apply to older students more as they are more likely to be driving themselves to college instead of younger students who may catch a bus. Only some students would like to hear about sports enrichments. The students that did enrichment were the ones that were interested in reading about enrichment in a college magazine. Second year students mostly wanted the magazine to be informal and to include information on road closures and different ways of travelling to college. Also nearly all first year students also wanted the magazine to be an informal style.

This information has affected my decisions on what to put on the front cover of my college magazine. As the front cover is the first thing students see before buying the magazine, I will need to put topics that will interest them. Therefore I will have topics such as food, sports and road closures. My magazine will have an informal style as this is what most students said they’d prefer. Majority of students said they didn’t know where to find a college magazine therefore hadn’t brought one before.

While analysing other magazine covers I noticed a pattern of how a typical magazine is laid out. Also there was not much writing on the front of the magazines I analgised as the front cover is meant to be a main image with a simple overview of what the magazine includes. The pricing of the magazines tend to be fairly small to not put people of buying them. However if there was a promotion or sale of the magazine then the price was made more obvious.