Evaluation of school magazine.

In my school magazine I decided to follow a typical trend of school magazines, I researched some of the style types in lesson, this helped me a great deal when it came to producing my own, for example I followed the feature of having a running colour scheme through front page onto contents page, this made my magazine better as it wasn’t a range of colour’s and this would mean it would make it recognizable to the school. Also I kept the layout on my page simple and didn’t try to fit in a lot of text if there wasn’t enough room, this meant my magazine wasn’t messy and unprepared. I used a large clear font to make my title, this meant that it was clear to read, this made my magazine look professional, where as if I had used a large bold text that looked unprofessional it may put a few readers off it not being able to read it.

My magazine represents teachers as there is a student of the month and this includes teachers votes for each pupil, this attracts teachers as it can be a competition between the staff, this would mean that the moral would be boosted within the teachers at the school. Also this may attract teachers from other schools as it gives them an idea to do within their own school magazine, this also lets other teachers see what other schools are doing to give them an idea of why a specific school is popular. This helps physically able and disabled as it shows that any student is welcome within the school, it does this by not promoting anything to do with P.E just skills that both parties can carry out, such as art and textiles. Gender is also represented on my magazine as both male a female models were used to help broaden my span of pupils, also by using a boy as a model for art is a contrast between what a stereotypical boy would do such as P.E he has gone with the subjects he is most confident with. The main image on my front cover is of a student and his art work he has completed, this is to promote the school as being a talented intellectual school that has high standards of work. By doing this it shows other students what they may achieve with the help given from this school to boost them and their work.

My magazine would be best off being distributed from a very arts and crafts orientated school, this is because it has a lot to do with designing and producing there own work in which ever style they wish to follow, by doing this it singles out which children would be best for the school for example if a very sports orientated person was to pick up the magazine they would see that it includes some sports but mainly arts and crafts.

I would be aiming my magazine at students that are leaving middle school and looking for a high school to go to after, this meant that I had to show students what they could achieve if they came to this school, also this would help the parents persuade their children as they would want the best for their children and if they were arty they would be best going to a school that promotes art.

I attracted my audience through a range of images and stories combined, this helps the audience as it shows a large range of what the school is trying to promote. By doing this it shows my target audience about the school and the activities that take part within the school. I used informal language as my target audience would only be about 13 or 14 years old and some children wouldn’t know how to read some large words within the articles so I kept my text simple but it was still used correctly to give the best effect possible for when parents/carers read the magazine.

I have learnt through constructing my own magazine, that natural light can be just as effective when taking a picture as artificial. I found a spot that has plenty of natural light and then found that no flash needed to be used to create the look I wanted. By using natural light the subject had their natural complexion and didn’t look like a light orange colour, this made my magazine look fresh and professional on the front cover, this gave the impression my magazine was going to be the same throughout.