Preliminary Task: Layout

Layout

For my school magazine I have decided to use the conventions of existing school magazines to help me with the layout of my magazine. I have analysed other magazines to give me inspiration for the layout of my magazine, I have took the conventions such as the main picture, title, and sub-headings to try and make my magazine look as authentic and professional as possible.

Preliminary Task: Colour Scheme

Colour Scheme

I have looked at school magazines which have been produced and have found out that their colour scheme is similar to the uniform. They would do this as it will resemble the school and keep it to their school personally.

 

For my preliminary piece I will follow these conventions and use the colour scheme of the school by using the colours blue and black. I believe this will keep the magazine related to the school as it is similar to the uniform which the pupils wear.

Preliminary Task: Target Audience

Target Audience

I have recently looked at a few school magazines, and these magazines can tell me what my target audience for my preliminary task will be. The target audience for my preliminary task is pupils of the school.

This is an example magazine for a school which the target audience is for the pupils of the school. We can clearly see this because of the pupil on the front of the magazine. We can also see it is targeted at the pupils because of the side stories which tell you about things the pupils will need to know.

Preliminary Task: Font Choice

This font is on the short list for fonts which I would like to use, this is because it is smart and eye catching. I like this font as it would catch the eye of the the reader and makes the magazine stand out from others.

Preliminary Task: School Magazine Cover Analysis

This magazine cover looks very smart as a number of clever techniques have been used, and it also includes things such as the masthead and subheadings. We can see that the cover has a house style, with a grey/black background and yellow text, this makes the cover easy to read as there is a limited amount of numbers. There is more than one font on the cover of this magazine, this makes the magazine look more interesting as there is more things to catch your eye.