School Magazine Research



Front Page

Images:

For the majority of the front pages, small images were placed to be either overlapping or in a scattered affect. This included images of the school, the school logo or emblem and certain activities which the school have recently undertaken. They all used a colour scheme mainly focusing on stop primary colours to give a strong effect. The more effective school magazines where bright and stuck to there colour scheme and filled the front cover entirely with text, manipulated images and colour.

Language:

The language used was quite colloquial in a rounded font, showing focus on the target audience’s age. However bold titles and subtitles were used to draw the eye. Successful magazines kept the text all to one side of the page, leaving the other open for the image. Again, the colour of the writing depended on the colour scheme but mainly used a contrasting colour to the background to draw attention to the text.

Fusion Magazine






  

Fusion front cover stood out because of its colours and main picture, making it a typical magazine instead of a school magazine.

Its logo is unlike the others as it is not named after the school, and has an inventive effect on the image.

The colours used are strong, and because of only three colours it has a more focused look to it. The image is an abstract photograph which has been manipulated. This isn't typical of a school magazine who normally use pictures of the school, or students.

The layout is mainly dominated by the picture, although the text over laps the image.

Top Terrace

Top terrace doesn’t necessarily have a way in which a front page is stereotypically generated. This front cover doesn’t use titles or subtitles to say what is in the magazine, instead it has an introduction underneath the 'Record Year' heading.

The colours used are linked between cold and warm, which draws the eye toward the page.

The images that are used of school members which take up around two thirds of the page. The overall effect is gives it a proffesional look as the page if full and every part is used.

Contents Page

Images:

The school magazines varied in a way to represent the contents page. Certain magazines didn’t use images or didn’t have images which related to the school like the Fusion Magazine, which has an image of a cassette.  

Language:

The language used was once again quite colloquial to gain the readers attention with rounded fonts. The text was seemed to be put into subtitles of different areas of interest.

Fusion Magazine

The contents pages uses typical conventions of page numbering, titles, subtitles and images. The language used is colloquial. No colour particular colour scheme is used, making it seem quite childish.

George Stephenson

The contents page for George Stephenson uses rounded font and colloquial language to appeal to its audience. It also titles and subtitles different areas of interest for the reader.

It also has a 'Word From the Editorial Team' which is unique.