Description of magazine and layout.Leah Aston.

Target audience. The target audience for my school magazine will be students from 11-18 as this is the age range for students of secondary school, and also the age when students begin to become for independent in their studies and have more freedom on what they choose to read, so it’s likely that they’ll be reading the magazine and not their parents. Yet in order to reach this target range, id have to make the magazine colourful and interesting to read, so more student based than rather school based e.g., information on upcoming events, student work and how to get the most out of your studies.

Title ideas for the masthead. BDMagazine – in that layout Or: BD weekly

Main Image Originally , my masthead was going to be an image of a girl in her school uniform, carrying a folder and smiling at the camera with direct eye contact. This would create a relationship with the audience, and also create a warm mood. Yet then I had an idea of friends studying on a table covered with folders and papers. This would be a good idea as it makes the magazine look professional, but this may not be the tone I was going for.

Main cover line. ‘Stressed out teens – how to manage your studies’ ‘Take a chill pill – Chemistry student tells us his top tips on how to relax’ ‘ Know your career path? Take this quiz to find out!’

Additional key images. No other images will be on the cover page as I want it to look clean, and not crowded and cluttered with text and images

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Typography Size 14 for general text, 32 for mast head and size 18 for cover lines and stories.

Background colour/image. Background will be either of a faded background of a school field or background of a classroom where student's are studying.

Technical considerations. Props that I will include will be: folders, maybe pens, notepads, pencil cases and tables and chairs. The lighting will be from natural environment as im likely to take the picture outside, so the setting will be in an outside environment.

Cover page. The title for my magazine will be straight forward ad easy to understand as the content will be the most important thing for my magazine.

This banner will include a free giveaway for the reader, as that’s an incentive to read the magazine. The amount of cover lines I will add will be minimal as I don’t want my magazine cover to be cluttered with information.

This will include information about the magazine, and also the price, website and barcode. The main image will have a faded background as to make it easier to see the main part of the image, e.g a girl holding folders.

Contents pageThe numbers on either side add a creative side to the contents page, so it’s not just straight forward.

The BD logo will be here for the magazine to look professional and add a level of sophistication to the contents page

The images will be here so the page doesn’t look cluttered with information, that way, people are likely to read on