Brief• For this task I am going to design the front cover and the contents page of

a school magazine. To do this I am going to be taking photos of my peers around the school editing them and placing them on a page with relevant

school information and colour scheme to form a school magazine. • The design of both the front cover and the contents page is going to be

similar and flowing throughout using the colours red and black as main colours for the magazine and I am going to include text written within the

same font throughout the magazine for added consistency and clarity.• Audience research:

What would you expect to see in a school magazine?

Number of people:

Student achievements 16sports 7results 13facilities 11Current affairs in school 6

Large title outlines in bold and shining through to emphasise the name of the school magazine. This shows that the school is pound of their magazine name and of their magazine as a whole and want people to see it and pick it up to read.

There is a slogan to sell the school to the parents so they can see that the school has confidence within themselves and the underlined words (best and today) are underlined so as to inform the reader that they see that this school the subtitle is there to explain what the magazine is about and this one is clearly trying to get parents to enrol their children into the school. This is also a strap sell line.

The main image shows a young girl (younger than average) wearing the graduation hat showing great intelligence in younger pupils. The girl is smiling showing that she is happy within the learning environment that she is in.

School colour scheme is used throughout the front cover of the magazine . This subliminally makes the reader continue to think about the school as they read through the magazine.

There is a price for the magazine on the front however there is a lacking of the date that the magazine was put out on and there is no place saying the number of the issue or even the month that the magazine was released on. However the use of the price is good as its informative to the reader so they can make a judgement as to whether they can afford to buy the magazine or not.

Secondary stories are present on this front cover again in the school colours. The first one has the year date for last term on it showing how well the school did the previous year.

Interviews are present within the Magazine as they have asked student about their problems and answered them in the magazine making people want to see what they have answered.

These titles could also be seen as teaser stories as they have enough info on them to make the reader want to see what they are about and perhaps make the person that is looking to buy the magazine purchase it because of what they read on the front cover.

The font is kept the same throughout the front cover of the magazine apart from the title which stands out among all of the text that is displayed on the front cover. The language is generic and can be determined by both students and adults however the available content looks to be something that parents would prefer to read than something that a child would read however the colours of the text would suggest otherwise.

The white background of the image is white which makes printing fees cheaper it’s a well edited image.

The date of release and the time of year are both stated at the top of this magazine next to the type of addition that the magazine is as well. All of this information is relevant as it is a formal way to tell the reader what they are buying and if its in date or not.

There is a website address at the top of the magazine to show the reader where they can go for more information if they want it. This is a good thing to have on a magazine so people have the option to go to extra places for information if they want to. It gives people a choice.

The publisher of the magazine is also present on this print and this shows how professional the magazine is by showing that it is able to have a publisher.

There is a mini contents on the front page which tells you where the big stories are within the magazine. These could be seen as teaser stories as they have a title and the page number of the story. This is a nice addition to the magazine as it allows people to see just what they are going to be reading within the magazine.

There is a title which is in bold and is the largest piece of writing on this magazine. The title is written in a thick font and the word parent is thinner and larger to emphasise the target audience of the magazine, this is a quick way for the reader to realise who the magazine is targeted at.

There is a strap line (sell line on this magazine it helps to sell the magazine to the intended audience. As it is about helping your children showing it is for adults not students.

The image is centred and uses highlighted colours and an image which are usually associated with summertime. The image shows a cricketer wearing a white kit with red lining which the designer of the magazine has used to make the colour scheme of the magazine. This image gives the implication that the school are keen on sports and may enhance the way the school looks to those that like sports or prefer sports within schools.

there is a competition within the magazine which is there so that people will see it and then want to buy the magazine to enter into the competition and then be in with a chance of winning a prize. It is a good marketing technique to add into the magazine.

There is a swish sub heading which could also be a kind of strap line which is place upon the image and is almost a pun. The writing says have a sporting summer and works with the image to add a slight bit of humour to the magazine.

There is another strap line at he bottom of the magazine which is again used to help sell the magazine to parents by using a professionally written catch line.

AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – School Magazine Front Page Proposal Form

Target audience: (age range, interests)Although it is a school newsletter you still have to think about your audience and how to appeal to them.

The main target audience for my magazine is going to be the sixth form, parents of sixth form and teachers of sixth form. The starting age is from around 16+ and it can go all the way up to around the age of 50.The interests of the audience will be more adult than that of a younger audience as they have more knowledge than younger people. The sixth forms interests will be ideally on sixth form and what is going on with the sixth form and things that will only concern the sixth form.

Possible title ideas: (masthead / title block)What is your magazine going to be called?

TPSixth Main image:What will be the focal point of your front page, remember, your work “must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up”

The main image will be of a sixth form student smiling wearing a suit with a pen or some sort of writing device. Perhaps books in his or her hands.

Main cover line:What will be the main story?

How will we cater for the new sixth!?

Additional key images:What other images will be on your front cover?Remember, it is a school magazine.

Glasses on table. Headphones being held.Confused and constrained children.

Additional cover lines:Other features, stories or selling points which will be inside the magazine, these need to be audience appropriate.

Can we defeat the bridging work blues.A day in the sixth Should Hair be considered as uniform?Music department gets a face lift.

Typography: (style, size, colour of copy)Think about the writing and the style of the writing on your front page.

Block text will be used,Black, white and grey used as the main colour as well as the use of the logo. Colour will punch through from the main image. Technique font.

Background colour/image:What will be in the background, remember you don’t want to take the focus away from the main image.

The background will be white as this is one of the main colours of the colour scheme.

Technical considerations:(equipment, setting, props, costume, lighting)Be realistic and creative, think about what you have access to and how you could use it.

generic sixth form clothing. Headphones, glasses, camera, school stationary.

Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers must include a

photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text and use of an image manipulation

programme (Photoshop).

Below start to sketch what the front cover of your newsletter will look like.

Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers must include a

photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text and use of an image manipulation

programme (Photoshop).

Below start to sketch what the contents page of your newsletter will look like.

Front cover of my magazine

The title/ header of the magazine is written in the colours of the priory school logo which is also the colour scheme and this is a key part of the magazine both on the front cover and on the contents page.

The sub headings are written with black colours over the red and black logo of the school fitting with the colour scheme and also being easily read over the light colours in the background.

The barcode at the bottom is not really necessary on a school magazine however for a big school that has a large amount of sales may have this on their magazine.

The issue number and date of release are important for the front cover as it is a requirement for most magazines to have this information so the audience know what they are reading and if it is up to date or not.

The main image is a medium shot where a student looks into the distance, half of his is cut off to good effect on the side of the magazine and the image also is taking up quite a section of the front cover which effectively sells the magazine to the audience as it is fun and looks good.

Contents page for my magazineThis page was effected mainly by the use of opacity as I made most of the images and boxes on this page around 60% visible which meant that they were see through allowing the background to also be visible through the text and the boxes.

The title of this page is the same style as the one on the front cover which shows consistency within the magazine and the colour scheme is being used throughout.

The text on this page is all the same colour and font and the size is also the same. The text being the same is a key part to the clarity of the magazine.

The image at the bottom like the two others is just there for some relevance to the stories that are featured within the magazine and have titles mentioned in the contents page. They are not all my own images however in the future they will be.

1)For this image I firstly removed the background so that the image was on a white background to do this is used the magnetic lasso tool and the regular lasso tool to remove the excess image that I didn’t need.

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