School Magazine Front Covers

I have designed two front covers for my school magazine. My first magazine cover is arranged very simply, just as any fashion or music magazine on the highstreet is, therefore this is following the conventios of untemporary design. The name of my magazine, "School PAS", appeals to both parents and children. The word "School" is written in very formal writting, whilist the word "PAS" is written in much more modern upbeat font. "PAS" is an abbrevation for Parents And Students. This title shows the ideology between adults and pupils within the school. I have put most of the topics my magazine will be covering on the front page for my taregt audience, such as, general school news, fashion and the annual school/college like exams, topics and events rips and deadlines. I have also included a section which is primaly targeted at adults about inforamtion about the school. The badge of the school is also included to give the feeling of an educational envrioment.

The Chosen target audience for both my magazine cover designs is students aged 11-19 and parents aged around 28+. I have decided to target my magagzine to both students and parents to show the close relationship between children and adults in the school. This magazine discusses issues and topics that are usually dealt with in schools and colleges like exam preparation to notices about up comming inset days and half term.

This is my second design for my school front cover. I have decied to make it alot more colour as it will appeal more to my target market. I have continued to use the colour red to appeal to to the older generation of my target audience and have used bright colours, such as blue yellow and orange. I am unsure as to whether to keep this picture for my end product or take another picture.

With both my magazine designs my main attraction will a medium close up of one of the students in the school looking exetremly excited, this expression matches the article which follows. This will greatly attract the younger generation of my target audience.

The mis-en-scene of my first magazine design is a plain light colour, I have chosen this colour as the front cover will have much writting on, if a bright or dark colour was used the magazine may look too "hetic".

A small section of both my magagzine designs will be targeted directly at adults. This section is found in the right hand corner of the front cover and includes what adults may find of interest inside the magazine. This section, "Parent's Corner", will be formally written. I have used different colours in both magagzine designs to appeal to everyone whether they are 11 0r 50. This is because different colours attract different people. Foe example 13year olds prefer bright colours such as yellow or blue, whereas most 30 years would prefer more relaxed and formal colours, such as red.