Word cloud to help think of a potential masthead

I created this word cloud to help me think of a potential masthead for my magazine. The words that I have used all associate with my target audience and 'college life'. 

Creative Ideas for the front cover

• I will use a combination of colours that go well together and will appeal to both male/female students. I will use bright colours to make it more attracting which are most likely to be blue, red and white.
• For the front cover the main picture should be of a student/group of students as a representation of what the college magazine is for.
• The font that I decide to use should be bold and not to fancy, so its easily readable and stands out.
• The font I am thinking of using for the masthead is either 'veranda'  or 'helvetica'.
  Veranda
  Helvetica
• The masthead I use should be quite straight forward and not too complicated, something that relates to the purpose of the magazine so the audience know what they're reading.
• Cover stories should be included on the front cover of the magazine, so when students look they can instantly see if there is something in the magazine that they might be interested in reading. I also think that stories other than student life in the college, such as celebrities/real life stories should be included in the magazine. 
• Smaller images should be put on the front cover to link to the cover stories and the main feature.
• The price/barcode/date/issue is something I should be considering putting on the front cover as well.

Font style ideas for the college magazine

College Magazine - Arial

College Magazine - Courier

College Magazine - Georgia

College Magazine - Helvetica

College Magazine - Times

College Magazine - Trebuchet

College Magazine - Verdana Bold

College Magazine - Verdana

Survey Results for my College Magazine

Survey Results for my College Magazine from joliequirke

My Initial Response

My initial response to the brief is that its not something I have done before, so I am interested in the idea and i am going to do it to the best of my ability to achieve the task.

THE BRIEF

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, feature a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).