The name of the magazine is strong and bold and the orange colour makes it stand out against the black background. I like how the main image of the man cheering is overlapping the magazine name. It makes it look more realistic and the magazine more professional. The picture is also very natural looking. ‘School Sport’ includes lots of different features making it look professional, like a proper magazine.

The magazine uses the colours orange, white and black throughout the front cover for consistency and to make it look more attractive. The orange is a warm colour making it appear happy and exciting.

At first glance, this front page doesn’t look like it is for a school magazine. The colours used and the headline ‘I Love Fashion’ suggests it is targeted at girls. The fonts used are soft and girly and stand out infront of the dark background as they are white. The headline is effectively on a pick, translucent banner.

I do not particularly like this front cover as I think the colours used are boring and unexciting. More features showing what is inside the magazine should be included on the front cover.

This magazine is eye catching as it uses bright, bold colours. It has a dark background making the title and pictures look very affective in contrast to it. I believe the picture on the front cover relates well to the title ‘school arts’ as it is very artistic. There is no text which is clever as because it is an art magazine, all the focus is on the images. The front cover draws you in to the man at the front as his face is very detailed and he is bigger than everything else on the page making him the main focus on the front cover. The other blue men on the page have slightly blurred faces and are less obvious.

Target Audience and Cover Story

I have decided to aim my magazine at all students in secondary school as I believe it is easier to aim my magazine at a larger range of students. As I attend an all girls school I would aim the magazine at girls.

In addition to this, I have also decided to have the cover story as anti-bullying as I think this would attract attention and is an effective idea. I will display a picture of my sister in her school uniform looking like a bullying victim.

Brief

Preliminary exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/ college magazine featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.