Sketch of my school magazine cover

Here is a sketch of my school magazine cover to be called “success”. I choose this word because I think that it will help relate to my audience easier. The audience for my magazine cover is teenagers who are still in education and who are going through their exams. When my audience first see my magazine cover I would want them to see the title “success”. This will make them want to buy my magazine as they will know that straight away my magazine will give them advice of how to be successful with their exams. The secondary images will be of children in their uniform, to signify to readers that the magazine is based about school. The other secondary image will be of the school building, again to help readers know that my magazine is to them. My slogan “believe, achieve, succeed”. I chose this slogan as it is abrupt and catchy. This will help my audience to remember the slogan.

Below this is a sketch of how I would like my content page to look. the layout page of my content page is very simple and neat. I feel that this will make it more clear for my audience to understand and read. on this page there will include four images that will relate to the topics. the topics will be all events that relate to school e.g. revision tips, school curriculum and more.

School magazine cover research

On the magazine cover above, the contrast between the colours blue and white help the title to stand out. It is bold and helps the title to be more recognizable. The title of the magazine cover ‘Academy’ is spelt with a lower case A; this can be informal having the first letter of the word with no capital letter. This tells us that the magazine is trying to appeal to a younger audience; it also does not look very professional. The main colour of this magazine cover is blue; this includes the top and the bottom border line of the colour as well as the student’s uniform. This colour symbolises wisdom, confidence and intelligence. This suggests that the school as being full of students who are wise, confident and intelligent. Overall this will show the school as a good school.

It is obvious that both of the magazine covers are school magazines. On the magazine cover below, the main image is of a girl wearing school uniform: blouse, tie and blazer. The audience will notice straight away that the girl is wearing uniform and feel that the magazine somehow has got something to do with their age range. The cover lines in this magazine also relate to school life such as: ‘GCSE results’, in school young people from everywhere around the age of 16 will be doing their GCSE’s. in this magazine cover the headline ‘teenage stress’ will get young people’s attention straight away as they will be stressed with their exams and other situations that teenagers go through, so this will make the readers feel as if they can relate to this headline which will result them into reading the magazine more. The colour yellow symbolises joy and happiness but it does not go with the word ‘stress’. However the writer could have used yellow because this colour is very vibrant, so it will help to point out the main topic that the magazine is going to be based about. This bright colour will also attract the audience to the magazine.

 The target audience for both of these magazine covers are young people aged between 15-18 years, who are still in full time education, both genders and who are going through exams and find school stressful.

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This year in media i will be developing my skills in how to make a magazine cover and content page.