Comments on Draft Magazine 1

From the various comments of people from my target audience, I can summarise from this that the colour scheme was mostly a feature of the magazine that people liked. However, the layout of the magazine cover and contents was disliked as it should look more professional and more target audience oriented through having a better structure. When it comes to the background of the contents page in relation to the layout, this was also disliked as it did not look attractive. With the images of my magazine cover and contents page, they were thought to be good images to use but the width of them should be considered as it made some of them, especially the front cover image, look squashed. Finally, when it came to the other features of the magazine, these were liked also. Examples being a good masthead and the inclusion of a competition being liked. 

School Magazine Draft 1 Forms and Conventions Annotations

School Magazine Draft 1

Camera Angles

Layout Plan for Front Page and Contents Page

Mise - en - scene Annotations Image 4

Mise - en - scene Annotations Image 3

Mise - en - scene Annotations Image 2

Mise - en - scene Annotations Image 1

4 Images For School Magazine

Target Audience Profile For School Magazine

Age: 16 - 18

Gender: Female.

Ethnicity: British, white.

Political: None.

Occupation: Student but also in part time work. 

Hobbies: Sport, community involvement such as charity work, writing, reading and enjoys socialising. 

Media Use: Computer, teenage magazines and television.

Background: Lives with family, younger siblings, grew up and still lives locally and dedicated and hard working student at local school.

Social Class: Working class. 

School Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page Annotations (3)

School Magazine Cover and Contents Page Annotations (2)

School Magazine Cover and Contents Page Annotations (1)

5 Week Action Plan

Week 1
Focus: Planning and Research.
Tasks: Preliminary task brief, initial thoughts and ideas, 5 week action plan and research and annotations.
Needs: Computer to work on, blog and being able to post on blog working and being able to find 3 official school magazines to research and annotate.

Week 2
Focus: Production and audience needs.
Tasks: Create a target audience profile for your school/college magazine, prepare your original images (4 in total), annotate your chosen 4 images and create the layout plans for your front cover and contents page. 
Needs: Computer to work on and a camera.

Week 3
Focus: Editing and drafting.
Tasks: Create front cover and contents page of school/college magazine, annotate forms and conventions used, collect feedback on it and summarise these comments on blog. 
Needs: Computer to work on and people to ask for feedback within my target audience. 

Week 4
Focus: Feedback and redrafting. 
Tasks: Using feedback, change front cover and contents page of school/college magazine, annotate it with what changes I made and why and create a post reflecting on my work. 
Needs: Computer to work on

Week 5
Focus: Editing and completion. 
Tasks: Make sure the front cover and contents page of my school/college magazine is complete and also complete the reflection on my work post.
Needs: Computer to work on

Initial Thoughts and Ideas

• Majority of images are of students.
• Use of eye catching colours and fonts to appeal to student audience. 
• Current opportunities for students outside of school to get involved in that would interest them so they could develop their skills. (E.g. skills in sport)
• Upcoming events (trips, exams etc) that would interest students.
• Student contribution (images, articles, school work etc).
• Includes up to date school news and events that would interest students. 
• Use of school colours and logo.
• Has a competition aimed at students.

Preliminary Task Brief

The preliminary task brief is to design and create the front cover and contents page for a school magazine.  To do this, I will need to research current school magazines and gather ideas for my own product. To create my product, I will need to use all of the conventions of a magazine and other techniques (such as colour and image) to appeal to my target audience.