Archive for the ‘School Magazine Research and Planning’ Category

I am now starting to research for my music magazine but also I have been evaluating a contents page of a real magazine in order to produce my own for one of the school magazines.

Here is a link to a document in which I have shown different stages of production of the magazine cover. It includes explanations of what each picture shows.

For my magazine cover I plan to have a fairly formal layout which still appeals to students.  Pictures will include events, students and staff. The events will include sports day and the most recent, house music. The writing on the cover will be limited to maintain the formal appearance but will give an idea of the [...]

Here is an evaluation of four different school magazines. School Magazine Evaluations

Media Inspiration- This is a link for some analysis of various genres of magazine to be inspired and find ways of presenting information as a front cover of a magazine.

Brief from the exam board: Print 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 DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page [...]