School Magazine - Final Product

These are images of the final product of my school Magazine;

Cover

Contents Page

This is where I have put all of my research and planning together and made a fully finished school magazine cover and contents page in my own interpretation.

School Magazine - Evaluation

When making my school magazine, as my priliminary task, i followed a brief. This brief was to make a school magazine cover and a contents page with a selection of pictures and text's to be on it. The audience was for the parents of the students and students themselves to see what had been going on in the school month.

Before starting, i conducted some research. I firstly went on google images and found a range of different school magazine covers so i could get an idea of what was already out there and what they looked like.  I used a couple of these to make make a poster with my media class. We stuck a few onto a big sheet of paper and wrote down the good points and bad points about each one. This helped me to get an idea of what i should and shouldnt do in my own magazine.

Next, i created two different word documents; one for a plan of my magazine cover and the other of a plan for my contents page. These were basic outlines and texts to show where everything was going and what i was going to include on them. This helped me greatly when making the actual cover and contents. This also got me into taking photos to be used on them and deciding exactly what stories i wanted to use on the magazine.

The next stage was making them on a programme called Pages. I used a colour scheme of blue, green, yellow and white (as they are in the school's logo) and red for the title to make it bold for the audience clearly see what the magazine was called. I added the images that i had taken and completed my cover page and contents page with the use of the plans i had done previously. The main problem that i came across was that I thought I was using too many colours, so i made sure to put an almost equal amount of each colours on the pages so they wouldn't look too crowded with colour. I managed to make the two pages look like a set with the use of the same texts and some pictures as well as the colour scheme used.

To find out what other people thought of my cover and contents pages, I asked for some feedback from a person from my media class, to see from a students point of view, and my mother, to see from a parents point of view. My classmate liked the use of the colours and pictures used as they were thought to be a good combination, however some unimportant parts , such as part of a picture, seemed to stand out and made the page look overpowering. My mum said that she loved the different fonts i used and the story headlines, she thought them to be interesting and made her want to read them. On the other hand, she thought there was a little too much white and made some of it look unfilled.
I will be using this feedback i have collected if i need to improve my school magazine at a later date.

School Magazine - Contents Page Plan

Here is a plan for the contents page of my magazine ;

This is a plan I have made in a Word Document which I have designed roughly where each component is going on my conetents page. I have made it so that I am prepared when I make the real page later on.

School Magazine - Cover Plan

Here is a basic plan of my upcoming magazine cover. It includes the layouts and the main features ; 

                                                       

This is a plan of what I want my school magazine front cover to look like and where everything is going to be placed. This a plan so that I am up to speed when I make the real thing.

Preliminary Task - School Magazine

This is the first task I have done for my media studies coursework. We had to look on the internet and find a few different school magazine covers. This was to get an idea of what a school magazine looks like to make mine in the future.

These are the pictures with my views;

I like this magazine cover as it uses a combination of bright colours that stand out to the audience. The picture fills up the whole page, so there is no unnecessary space/gaps. You can see clearly from the picture that it is a school magazine. 

This picture also uses all of the space and the colours from the picture match nicely with the colours used for the writing and other editing. However. it could improve by using different colours for the text and there is only text on one side. 

This shows a magazine for an audience of parents as it appears to be smart and presentable. The title at the top covers a lot of the page, so it could have been made a bit smaller to not hide the person's face in the picture.