1. Name: _____jamal______________________________
AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – SchoolMagazine Front Page Proposal Form
Target audience: My target audience is 6th formers and year 11 students.
(age range, interests)
Although it is a school newsletter you still
have to think about your audience and
how to appeal to them.
Possible title ideas: Manor Mag. Mag of the Month.
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Main image: My main image will be of a student making a funny face which
What will be the focal point of your front will match the additional cover lines.
page, remember, your work “must include
a photograph of a student in a medium
close-up”
Main cover line: I will not have a singular main cover line but instead I will have
What will be the main story? three equal cover lines so the magazine will not be based on
one story.
Additional key images: There will just be one image on my front cover but there a
What other images will be on your front ‘facebook’ sign on the bottom as the magazine is aimed at 16-18
cover? year olds
Remember, it is a school magazine.
Additional cover lines: ‘6th form gone wild!’ ‘6th form isn’t so bad!!!’ ‘preston manor to
Other features, stories or selling points academy?’
which will be inside the magazine, these
need to be audience appropriate.
Typography: Rainbow coloured font,
(style, size, colour of copy)
Think about the writing and the style of
the writing on your front page.
Background colour/image: The background will have a fuzzy, fading image which contrasts
What will be in the background, remember with the jumper Jordan is wearing.
you don’t want to take the focus away
from the main image.
Technical considerations: I could tell the people/person what to wear and I can take
(equipment, setting, props, photos around school so lighting, setting and equipment isn’t a
costume, lighting) problem. I could use my own props.
Be realistic and creative, think about what
you have access to and how you could use
it.

2. 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.

3. 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.