Research into school/sixth form magazines.

I am conducting some research into various school and sixth form magazines as i have to create one as part of my preliminary task. I would like to learn about the key conventions used and them from this decide what makes a successful school magazine.

Here is a word cloud of the key points to consider when designing a school magazine.

Here is my front cover analysis of a magazine called 'High Profile' from kehs.org.uk which is King Edwards School for Girls website. It was created for students who go to the school, their families and the surrounding community.  I analysed this so that I could know about what makes a good school magazine front cover and the different technique and features they had used to do so, the front cover I selected was Summer 2007.

Comberton Sixth form magazine is called 'The First' which is a student magazine from http://www.combertonsixthform.org/. I chose to analyse the front cover and contents as it appealed to me with the winter edition and seemed modern and fun.

I think that my favourite magazine front cover was 'The First' because there was a clear theme and a good masthead. The main points that I have learnt from doing this research task in sixth form magazines is that they have a masthead which is usually the biggest font size and commonly in bold to stand out, this is normally at the top of the page in the top third of the front cover and contrasts well with the backround. There is a theme for each magazine and a unique identity for each different schools own magazine. They mostly have one image on the front cover, that takes up the whole of the middle section and helps to get attention of the readers.

Indroduction

My name is Mallory and I am a media student.

This blog charts my progress in response to AS coursework brief PRINT

This is my AS coursework PRINT brief blog.
The brief is:
a preliminary task- to produce the front cover and contents page of a new school magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in MCU plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead.

The main task is to design the front cover, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine which is to include a minimum of 4 original images.