Annotations of front covers

NME annotated

Nme annotated

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Contents Page

Contents page of magazine

Magazine cover

Front Cover of magazine.

Evaluation of preliminary task

Evaluation


For my magazine I decided to do a healthy eating school magazine. I researched into different school magazines and healthy food magazines to get ideas for mine.


For the forms and conventions I used realistic cover lines and features on the front cover. I also decided to use an 'exclusive' as a banner going across the front page. I also used house colours of red and green, the green representing it being 'healthy.' I used a prominent mast head and a slogan above it. I used a medium close up of a student in my school holding an apple to enhance the healthy eating. I think these helped it to look realistic and professional. I used sans serif typography for both the front cover and for my contents page; I tried to stick to the house colours of the front page on the contents page also. I used a 'on the cover' feature to tell the reader what pages the features were that were on the front page. I also decided to use a picture of healthy food and unhealthy food and put the 'Good vs. bad' feature next to it to give readers a preview of what that page was about.


My media product represents the whole of the school social groups so it would be for working class students, it is targeted at a wide age range from 12 – 18, it is targeted at both male and females. The kind of media Institutions that would distribute my product would be schools who want to encourage healthy eating I n their own school.


I addressed and attracted my audience by using an eye catching image on a paler background making it stand out more and draw the reader's eye. I also used a large masthead in a prominent typeface and colour. Another feature I used to attract the audience was the 'exclusive' at the bottom of the magazine. I also used direct address on the front cover by saying 'what's really in your meal?' On the contents page again I used pictures of food to give the reader an insight into the magazine.


From the process of constructing this product I have learnt skills of how to take a medium close up photo and how to edit it so there was no backdrop around the person so it was able to be put on a different background. I also learnt skills using Photoshop and about the different typefaces and colours.

Typography ideas for school magazine

I played around with some different ideas for typography for my masthead on my preliminary school magazine task.

This school magazine has used a collage of loads of pictures from school activities. This shows that it is an active sporty type of school and suggests it may specialise in this.The house colours of the magazine are blue and white, this reflects the colour of the school uniform so the house colour of the school as a whole which is effective. The masthead is in a sans serif font making it look more proffesional. The name of the magazine is 'Contact' which is relevant as it could mean contact sports, or just contact in general at schools with other students such as group work etc. The magazine has not used any cover lines, the pictures however make up for this and give you an idea of what is inside.

Preliminary task - school magazine analysis

This is a magazine i found on a google search. It is a school magazine. From the cover you can see the target audience is for the parents of the children who go to the school rather than the pupils themselves. The main image gives the impression the magazine is for a science school as it clearly shows a two students and a teacher in a science lab classroom, the boy has a microscope. Also the main article appears to be on 'science on energy smart schools'. 

The house colours of this magazine are red and green and this is clearly shown on the cover. The masthead is eye catching and in a sans serif and a serif font which draws the eye to it. The main image is also has a out of focus background which  allows the reader to focus on the main object but also allows them to see more about the magazine as you can see a teacher in a lab coat. You can also see the school is mixed gender as a girl and a boy student are shown on the cover.

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