Preliminary Magazine

This magazine we created follows the normal magazine conventions, such as having a mid shot of a person as the main picture on the right hand side. It also has just 3 main colours, which are red and green in the cover lines, and blue in the title. We choose blue and green because it matchs the school logo, which appeals to the target audience because the magazine is designed for the school, and red because its stands out very clearly.

As far as I'm aware, the magazine does not break any of the conventions for a typical magazine. It has a masthead, a bar code, a price, 3 pictures and some cover lines, which you would find on almost any magazine.

The cover lines on the magazine should entice the target audience into reading the magazine because we deliberately choose to write the main one about a teacher that the majority of people would know, so therefore are more likely to read about than a teacher no ones heard about. Further more, the cover lines hint at whats in the article, to get the reader interested, but doesn't actually give anything way, so they feel compelled to read it and find out what it says.

The magazine I would say appeals to not regular or non-regular readers, but only to pupils at Lutterworth college, because its about their school. It is a magazine that can be read by anyone at the school, because it doesn't have anything on the front that someone who didn't read the previous issue would not understand.

If I had the time to go back and re-do this magazine cover, I would change a few things. Firstly, I would make space for a place to put the school logo, so that the blue and green colour theme makes more sense. Also I would recreate the masthead and strap line at the top, perhaps adding more colour or using a different font, because I think it looks too plain.

On the whole though, I feel that the finished product matches up to our original plan, and we did a good job on the cover.