2. This is the front cover of my school based
magazine. Throughout the whole page I have
used a consistent house style by using the green
and white. As well as this he background has
these colours also which overall makes the
magazine look more effective and realistic.
I have stuck to the main conventions of
magazines, by using the left third for most of the
coverlines. These coverlines are also relevant to
the magazine eg. “a fresh start, a new uniform”
The main picture itself is relevant and useful to the
magazine as the picture is of the students head
and shoulders, giving us a better focal point for
the picture as we can just look at the students
face without our attention being drawn to other
objects in the picture.
I have aimed the main target audience at parents
of students at the school. This is because I
believe parents would be more inclined to read the
magazine. As well as this, by having parents as
my target audience, there is a wide range of
coverlines that can be used to relate to parents.
3. This is the contents page for my school based
magazine. I have used the same, consistent house
style as the front cover as this is following the simple
conventions of magazine. I think the colour green
goes really well with my background picture, which is
an appropriate image for a school based magazine.
All of my storylines are relevant to the purpose of the
magazine e.g. “Kirsten Brown goes to Cambridge!” I
believe this is suitable to the target audience as
parents would want to see that students from this
school will go far in life. These storylines are also
easy to red and I have used vocabulary that would
be easy to understand for all ages, so that, although
my target audience is for parents, students would be
able to read the stories that interest them.
A disadvantage to this page, is that my contents
page hasn't been broken into categories for what
each article is about. This is something I can develop
in my music magazine
My pictures at the side that I have used are also
relevant to the context of this magazine. Each picture
shows a student of the school either doing work or in
certain areas of the school. This could give the
impression to the target audience that the students
at this school are hard working and succeed at
school.