Evaluation

My front cover follows the basic conventions of a magazine as my school magazine includes a logo next to my masthead, masthead at the top of the page and used cover and puff lines. However, i have not conformed to the conventions of a school magazine as usually the logo is located at the left of the masthead, but I have put it to the right of the masthead. I have also challenged the conventions of a magazine as normally the image takes up the whole page, but on my magazine I have left space around the image, to use for the cover and puff lines. My contents page has developed the basics of conventions of a magazine as I have made the contents page 50% images and 50% text. Also, I have used anchored text along the bottom of the page with the images, which follows the basic conventions of a contents page. Another thing I challenged was I used serif text, when normally sans serif text would be used. Also, I did not part my contents page into sections. When I create my music magazine I will ensure I follow the conventions of  a magazine as this will develop my magazine and will make it more attractive and look better.

My image on my front cover shows a mixture of boys and girls which presents a close, mixed community to show welcoming environment. The students have been represented as they are smartly dressed in business wear and chislehurst ties to present the school. The students are smiling and have confident body language. 

Since my media product of the school magazine, the distributor would have to be preferably small publisher as this product is only aimed at parents, and would only be created by teachers or students and be distributed to only the school. Considering my magazine would only be sold at a low price it would not be necessary to be published by a popular, big distributor as it would not be up to the standards of professionals.  

4.      Who would be the audience for your media product?

5.      How did you attract/address your audience?

6.      What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Contents for school magazine final

Front cover school magazine final

Questionnaire analysis

I handed out my questionnaire to 50 chislehurst students, then i recived the answers a week later and then collected all the answers to make an analysis.

My first question I asked was:
 Would you consider buying a school magaine? (circle one)

                          Yes/No
82% of people answered yes, 18% answered no

My second question was:
How often, in your opinion, should a school magazine be brought out? (circle one)

Once a week/ Once a term/ Once a month/ Once a year/
I collected these results and made into a pie chart.

My third question was:
Which reasonable ammount should a school magazine be sold for? (circle one)

20p 30p 40p 50p £1 other - if other please specify below
     
My answers varied from; 60% 20p to; 5% 30p ;5%40p ;10% 50p; 17% £1 and then 3% said other and the answer mostly was free. As a result of these answers, my school magazine will be priced as 20p as the majority of the people choose that pricing.

My fourth question was:
Who should be the target auidence for a school magazine? (circle one)

Teachers/ Parents/ Students

30% said teachers, 65% said parents and the 5% which was left said students, Therefore my school magazine will be aimed at parents/careers as this was the most choose answer.

My next question was:
What edition should be used when creating my school magazine? (circle one)

Seasonal edition (e.g. halloween) / Term edition/ Advertisements

The answers I collected were 13% said seasonal edition, 57% said term edition and 30% said advertisements, therefore my school magazine will be a mixture of being a term edition and advertisements.
Another question was:What theme should I use for my school magazine? (circle one)

Blue and green/ Black and white/ Blue and black
70% said blue and green as it the schools theme colours, 24% said black and white and 16% said black and blue. I will be using blue and green for my school magazine as the majority said blue and green and I believe it is a good idea as it the schools theme colours.

My final question was:
Which one should the mast head of my school magazine? (circle one)
I collected these results into a pie chart:

Front cover photoshoot

I took various pictures for my front cover, using three chislehurst sixth form students, this will show a sense of community and friendship creating a postive atmosphere for the school for the auidence as this will be the first image the auidence will see.
I took many pictures because I will decide which one is the best to use and which one I intend to use.

Photoshoot

I took some photographs with beaverwood students,I intend to use these pictures for my contents page.

Questionaire

Questionaire for school magazine

Would you consider buying a school magaine? (circle one)

                         Yes                 No

How often, in your opinion, should a school magazine be brought out? (circle one)

  Once a week            Once a term          Once a month        Once a year


Which reasonable ammount should a school magazine be sold for? (circle one)

20p            30p             40p              50p             £1           other - if other please specify below
     

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How useful would a school magazine be and why? (write below)

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Who should be the target auidence for a school magazine? (circle one)

                  Teachers                 Parents               Students


What edition should be used when creating my school magazine? (circle one)

 Seasonal edition (e.g. halloween)          Term edition         Advertisements


What theme should I use for my school magazine? (circle one)

Blue and green                  Black and white               Blue and black


Which one should the mast head of my school magazine? (circle one)

Beaverwood Times

Beaverwood Express

Beaverwood News

Beaverwood Daily

Chislehurst News

Chislehurst Express

Chislehurst Informer

Front cover plan

 

Contents idea

Ideas

Explanation of ideas for my magazine:

• Since Halloween is soon, an idea for the magazine front cover could be a Halloween edition, which could possibly include people dressed up or Photoshop the school to look 'scary' in way e.g. Photoshop people to look scary such as red eyes or edit in ghosts or edit the school with Halloween decorations. An idea I have for the title of this magazine could be a play on words, pun, such as 'be-ware wood' as the schools original name is Beaverwood.
• Another idea would be to advertise a trip which is happening with the school e,g, Disney trip, harry potter tour trip or could possibly think of an idea to advertise, as in create a trip which could be happing in the school.
• Also, an idea I have for my school magazine is, as school magazines are usually done every term, therefore I could do a either winter, spring, summer or autumn term magazine, which would be a more successful idea as there would be more to write about as this is advertising events done over a wider range of time.

Possible ideas for titles:

• Beaverwood Times
• Beaverwood Express
• Beaverwood News
• Beaverwood Daily
• Chislehurst News
• Chislehurst Express
• Chislehurst Informer 

Basic conventions of a magazine.

Basic Conventions of a Magazine  
Front cover: 

• Masthead - a text written at or near the top of the page which indicates the name of the magazine. This is usually written in bold and large font. This is the same on every issue that they produce. 
• Headline - A text written in bold at the top of the article indicating what the article is about. 
• Strap line - This is normally a phrase on the front cover of the magazine that is short and punchy making it memorable. these are good for marketing purposes and draws the audience towards the article. 
• Images - Every front cover has a large image of the main feature of the magazine. This is usually the largest thing on the front page, related to the storyline of the magazine, and is also used to attract the attention of the audience. Some magazines also use small images along the bottom or the side of the front cover giving a wider idea of what's inside the magazine. 
• Logo - This is displayed on the front cover and is the same logo that is on every other magazine that they produce.
•  Bar code - This is normally displayed at the bottom left of the page, this is scanned when a issue of the magazine is brought.
• Colour Theme - This is normally the same on every magazine produced by the company, as this gives a sense of reliability and makes the magazine easily recognisable. 

• Typography- There are two basic fonts, serif and san serif used for magazines, the use of the fonts vary from different magazines, serif is more formal and harder to read, where was sans-serif is more blocked and easier to read.

Contents page:

•  Headline - The headline for this page is usually the word 'contents' in bold writing across the top of the page. 
• Images - A successful contents page should include 50% images and 50% information.
•  A contents page has the page numbers and headlines of the articles inside the magazine, sometimes displaying a short paragraph explaining some of the information you'll find inside. 
• Logo -  This is displayed on the page in some place and is the same as the logo that will be presented on the front cover and every other magazine that they produce.
•  Colour Theme - This is the same as the colour theme used for the front cover. 

Magazine annotations

School magazine contents page annotations (2)

School contents page annotations

School magazine front cover annotations

Introduction

This blog has been created for the purpose of my AS level media studies for my Chislehurst School magazine which will include a front cover and a contents page. The purpose of a school magazine is to inform parents and careers everything necessary that they need to know, about either the school, students or so on.

In order to create this school magazine it is essential that I research magazines to find out what a normal magazine usually looks like to give me a idea on what I need to do. Whilst looking at these magazines I need to analyse; mise en scene, composition, framing, focus, foreground, the colour, the lighting, the background, text and the audience, as these are all the things i need to include, to succeed, whilst making my school magazine.

A school magazine is a form of publishing information to through a magazine. School magazines used to be disseminated to the readers by being passed through the children to parents and careers or given out through the school, however this has changed as now days school magazines are electronically given out via email to parents and careers and now usually a newsletter. They are usually made by designated students or teachers/adults to make them. The audience for school magazines are usually parents or careers for the students that attend that school,as if they give information which is necessary for them and inform them what is going on, everything they need to know. Each school, either grammar, secondary or primary school has a different school magazine as they may be done different or each information is different for each school.