Preliminary Task

The preliminary task is to produce the front cover of a school/college magazine featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some approximately laid-out text and a masthead. We also must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
I looked at some examples of last years front covers to help give me an idea of how to go about completeing my own cover. The college magazine which i chose to use as an example was Squash. I could recognise this as a magazine front cover because of the different advertisments and different fonts used. I think the magazine is intended for males between the age of 16-20 and its sucessfully targeted its audience because of the use of color and font. The font it bold so it stands out and immediately catches the readers eye. The magazine also targets the audience effectively by the use of language and advertisments used.