First, we looked at other school magazines and analysed them. Then we looked at the layout, text and images used for front covers. We desided indivdually what layouts we prefered and had a go at making a test front cover. I chose to do a fashion magazine called Whatever, where I used a med-length image of myself and edited in a photo of Bron in the left corner as a gossip advertisment. (Using photoshop)
Then we took lots more photo's that we could use in our school magazine for both the front cover and content page. I have finished my front cover now, and am currently working on my content page.
Bron and I are doing a magazine for 6th formers, college and university students. The magazine is there to try to help the readers deside if they want to take a gap year or not. If they do, it gives many tips on where to o and how to save, as well as some first hand experiences to read. We decided to make the magazine a free hand out, this is because many students dont have a lot of money, and we want every student to have a chance to read our magazine. We thought it could be handed out in assemblies, form times or maybe at the reception desk.
Bron is doing the 2010 Winter edition and I am working on the 2011 Winter issue. I was going to do the 2011 Summer issue but we found that getting images for the winter was a lot easier. We therefore decided I would do the next winter issue.
I am currenly researching other magazine content pages to give me idea's on how to layout my school magazine content page.
Lucy Cunnington
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