Content Page Layout

 

In order for me to create this page, I had to follow the basic conventions to creating a contents page. I managed to use almost 50% of my page with images and the rest is planned to be text.  The colour scheme for this page will also be dark blue and yellowy gold as intended for my first magazine cover. In this layout I was able to spread out each aspect of this page, in order for it to look more presentable and professional.

2nd Magazine Plan

My Results Analysis

What Makes A Good Magazine?

My Magazine Questionnaire

My 1st Plan

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Ideas for Magazine Plan

Ideas for Magazine Plan

The idea I have thought of doing for my magazine plan is Christmas or Sixth Form. For each background image i could either take pictures of the school with the name board included or for the sixth from cover i could take picture sof some Sixth Formers walking into the gate.

 From previous research I now know that most magazines consist of many conventions such as master heads, barcodes, dates, buy-lines, text, background pictures and features. But to make it look as professional as possible I won’t be using all of these conventions on my magazine cover.

 Some of the master heads that I came up with were

1.    Chislehurst Times

2.    The C.H. Paper

3.    Chislehurst Christmas.

I wanted the master heads of my magazine to be catchy but the type of magazine name would want to open and read. Whichever master head I decide on using, the colour scheme of my page wants be too bright, therefor leaving me with navy blue and a yellowy gold. M reason for these colour choices would be that I looked at the school uniform. Even though the uniform was all dark colours like grey and black, I also sae that the badge of the school had some yellow lines around it giving me my colour scheme idea.

The colour schemes will also for perfectly for my target audience as well as the theme. The purpose of my magazine will be clear just by looking at the front cover which will be based on starting sixth from. The combination with navy blue and yellowy gold will show that the magazine is dedicated to a Chislehurst school situation, also to make it look more efficient. The target audience will also be straight forward since most of the features on the front and pictures will be sixth from based.

Conventions of a Magazine

Conventions of a Magazine

·         Master Head - this is the magazines name and also an important part of branding.

·         Slogan - this is a ‘catch phrase’, summing up the newspapers unique selling pint.

·         Puffs and Blurbs - these are the colour bands that aim to attract readers to stories inside the newspaper or the ‘coming soon’ features.

·         Headlines - this would be the largest typeface on the front cover, showing that it is the main statement.

·         Sub-heads - are the small typeface, sometimes italicised, explaining more of the story.

·         Lead story - highlighted as being of most interesting for readers

·         By-line - journalists name and details, such as the date and time it was published.

·         Secondary Lead - still an important story but not as important as the Lead story.

·         Photographs - illustrate the lead story.

·         Menu - columns of the information showing what each section of the magazine is about and where to find things inside.

·         Small/line ad - contains text only, no images.

·         Display ad - includes pictures.

·         Exclusive - this means that the newspaper and no one else was able to cover this story, therefore it can’t be used by any other magazine or newspaper. The paper will pay their source which reassures them that it would not be used by anyone else.

 

There are many conventions that both magazine covers and content pages have in common. The main reason for this is to make the reader believe and understand the magazines high standards and make it look more professional.

Some of the conventions who be pictures, both pages would usually have pictures on them to illustrate the information as well as attract the readers to keep no reading. Another would be the typography use: the selection of typefaces and the arrangement of them can be as important as the use of color or images. Research has proven how good typography affects a reader’s mood, and also allows some to know what magazine they are reading just by looking at the typography of the cover page’s master head.

Moreover, creative use of colours also allows the magazine look more professional as well as delivers the right message in a right way. Depending on the colour scheme of the cover page, will immediately show the magazines target market. For example, a brightly coloured magazine would usually be for a younger audience such as children, whereas a simple coloured cover page with more information on the front would be for mainly adults.

From previous research, I was able to find out that most magazines consist of the conventions above. This helps to make more of their magazines to be bought by their customers as well as making their target market perfectly clear. Both cover and content pages always have pictures with colours, the basic point for this is to illustrate the magazines purpose moreover, give the readers an idea of what’ll be inside. Another convention that the cover pages use that content pages don’t would be a by-line. This is to show who wrote the article in the magazine as well some of their details. The reason that content pages don’t use this would be because it would go against the very purpose of a contents page, which is to show and navigate the readers to the page of their most interest.

My Introduction

This Blog is to show both School Magazines, that I was able to analysis some previous magazines that have been published. I will also show my plans and the making process of my School Magazine. As well as each step into making the front cover and researhc that i made. ill also be writing about the use of typograpghy, colour scheme and images and how they help make the magazine look more professional neat.

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