School Magazine

Blog 1

Hello Everyone,

            So last week I created my school magazine as a practice before starting my main music magazine. I had to create a front cover and a contents page following the codes and conventions of a typical school magazine. I took photos of people around school creating the lively vibe of Whitley Bay High School. This preliminary task really helped me get to grips with InDesign and Photoshop and also gave me ideas of how i'm going to style and set out my music magazine.

This is my final front cover design. The only requirement that was set for this task was to place a mid-close up of my main model on the front cover. I chose Becca who is in year 10 to be my model because she is in lower school so is experiencing the “vibe” of Whitley Bay High School.

The typical conventions of a school magazine front cover are:

         ·         Bright Colours

         ·         A medium close up

         ·         Happy Students

I used these conventions in my School Magazine by including a happy smiley girl on the front with a smaller picture of 2 happy sixth former's. This creates an image that the school is a happy and           friendly place, which Whitley Bay High School is.

                                                            
 Again there were conventions for a contents page:

       ·         Happy Students

       ·         Page Numbers

       ·         Titles

I used 2 lower school girls in my contents page photo, they’re holding files and in their uniform. This shows the school image of happy hard working students in every year. Also I used different coloured titles which would correspond with the pages in my magazine if I had created an entire magazine. Also the use of colours make the titles stand out and look more appealing to teenagers.

The bold “Contents” title is in a school type font really representing the fact it is a school magazine and following the codes and conventions of one.