Preliminary Task and evaluation

This is my Haydon school front cover, I decided to keep the colour scheme very simple and plain as the magazine is aimed at a wide audience varying between 12-18. I Incorporated the school logo into the magazine to display that the magazine is all about Haydon and allows the readers to feel apart of the magazine and the school. I took all of the photos myself either in the canteen or the common room, the layout of my front cover is very modern and welcoming looking. With the neat framing around all images it makes them all stand out, I created this on Indesign this was the first time i used it as previously we used photo shop. I found it difficult at the start but after awhile you gradually get the hang of it. I included the schools website and twitter name in my magazine to advertise the school and allow my readers to keep updated with important information. The price of my magazine is only £1.50. The reason why it's so cheep is because it being sold to student who are at a young age; will not have money of their own.

My contents page is very classy and plain with the constant theme of black white and the school colours, this was also created on Indesign. You can tell i created the contents page first because its standers aren't as good as my front cover page. At the start i found using Indesign rather tricky as i had never used it before, however my work progressed and i found out how to used all of the tools.

To improve my magazine: I would take stronger images that portray the canteen and school better to my audience, because i didn't have enough time to plan my preliminary task I decided to just get on with it and take the photographs on my Iphone instead of a professional camera. I would also download different styles of font of 'dafont' to make my magazine look more professional and appealing to my targer audience. I would also incorperate more yellow and navy throughout my magazine as it fits in with the schools colours.

Preliminary task video

At the start of the course we were asked to do a preliminary task of creating a front cover and a contents page for a school magazine. I quickly sketched some ideas for my layout. I then used a DSLR Cannon camera to take photos of my chosen models, locations and food which included a range of long shots, mid shots and close up shots, I have used on my front cover and contents page.

I wanted a name for my magazine that denoted its purpose of being a place for the students of Haydon to voice their thoughts and opinions, and therefore decided on the name 'Haydon School'.

In the next lesson I began constructing my pages. I have used a simple house style of navy blue, yellow and black as these are the school’s colours, and therefore link the magazine to Haydon.

Haydon school magazine

 

This is a sketch of the front cover of my preliminary task magazine. I decided to focus of the topic of the schools canteen and things that the pupils would enjoying hearing about. I thought it was important to included the schools stag to reninforce that this is a 'school' magazine; highlight to the readers that they should feel a part of the magazines readership. I had photographs of the schools food and a few memebers of staff who worked in the canteen. This was to show childrens parents or people viewing the magazine who haven't seen the new canteen and common room a rough idea of the big changes that have taken place. It was important for me to advertise the schools website and Twitter; it will help the school have more follwers and people looking into what our school is about. It gives the readers a choice to find out more.

I also wrote down notes below to discuss why I will include certain aspects. I thought it was important to explain why I chose this design to discuss why I thought my design will be effective and successful. I made sure I included the school's logo to make it clear about what my specific magazine will be about. I also thought it was vital to include what sell lines I would have on my cover page and what what headings I would use for the contents page so it would be easy to create it later on.

My target audience would find my magazine very helpful as it includes all vital information they would need to find out about the school and they be able to keep updated through my magazine release.