prelimary Task 1

For the first task, we have to make a front cover of a school magazine. My target audience is towards Helenswood School year 10 and 11, I had chosen this audience because girls mainly like to get creative and take part in different activities, such as making cards, cooking etc.

I called it Involved because the magazine is about people getting involved in doing different events, it encourages people to different activities and having fun, it does tell people what’s going on but it’s a twist that you can get involved if you like the event which is taking place.

The magazine is monthly so the front cover is always something to do with what happens that month, such as December will have a snowy, Christmas scene on the cover and there will be events which are to do with Christmas.

<---- Rough drawing of front cover.

My issue will be for October so the front cover is going to be presenting two girls in Halloween costumes eating Halloween sweet etc. I want this type of image on the front so it looks natural and that they are having a fun time and they aren’t just posed in front of a camera. The font of Involved will have cob webs dangling down from some of the letters and the image will be taken in a kitchen to emphasis the feeling that they created something for Halloween and they are doing something for Halloween. I will have the articles to the left side of the page with a few images of what people will be doing.

This is my final piece of my front cover.

Rough draft of contents page.

School magazine research

For this magazine the target audience is for sporty people or for people who idealises them and want to be like them when they are older. Such as the woman on the left would be targetting young atheletics girls and on the right the man would be targetting men or young boys.

The woman on the left is representing young atheletic girls, showing that you can be successful if you try hard. Also for the woman to be smiling, it is very encouraging and makes girls want to be like her even more.

On the right the man is representing men and young boys who are more masculine and are into sports which involves more injuries. He is representing success and how you can become like him if you try hard enough.

The school may be suggesting that the success rate is very high and people achieve their dreams, and by having two successful people on their front cover emphasises successfulness of the pupils.

Both covers are appealing because it's simple but not plain, the font of the title is bold and simple, the colours are eye catching, also the colour of the font looks like gold off of a medal which emphasises their achievements and how great they are at what they do. Also their is little amount of text which makes it less busy and more appealing to the audience. The images are appealing to the audience because on both covers the woman and the man are showing their biceps and muscles, by doing this it shows what you probably have to do to follow in their foot paths and be successful. Also the pictures show them in their enviroment and performing their sports, such as the woman is running and the man is playing rugby, the woman is smiling which makes her seem more approachable and makes you think she loves what she is good at and encourages people to do the same. Both images are focused on them emphasises that the spotlight is on them.

The layout is appealing towards the audience because the man and woman are in the middle and the photo is big which shows that they want them to stand out and they want them to be the main focus with little amount of text to one side of them.

the front cover is successful because they have a secret meaning behind them to encourage younger people to become succesful and to follow them in their paths, the font is eye catching and the colour is relevent to them because of medals or trophies. The images are shot in a good enviroment which shows they are not posers and they are in it tp win which gives a good impression. The front cover shouldn't be improved because it targets the audience perfectly, the layout, images, font etc, are appealing to the targetted audience.