ByKonrad Dobrzynski

Kodi CogginsAlex Aiano

The brief was to produce an imaginary new sixth form magazine suitable for Wanstead High School. We have to do this within small groups, each group member will be given a task to do, the tasks include:

-Front cover-Contents page

-Articles / features-And possibly advertising

• Our magazine is going to be a hobby/special interest magazine • We have decided to make our magazine a hobby/special interest

magazine because it isn’t really going to be interesting to anyone that doesn’t go to our sixth form, as most of it will be about the sixth form and news that relates to it

• It will be A4 size • We have decided to make it A4 because we wanted it to be big

enough to draw people in to read it, we also wanted to make it so that people could read it properly, and if we made it handbag size it wouldn’t be as easy to read as it would be as an A4 size magazine

• Will come out monthly • We would also want it to be monthly because we don’t want it to

be full of loads of irrelevant things, we would only include news from that month. If we did make our magazine a weekly magazine than we would probably run out things to include in our articles

• The magazine will be free • This is because people are more likely to pick up and

read a free magazine then they would if they had to buy it first

• This would mean that we would have to make all our profits from advertising. We would hopefully get advertisement from the local businesses that want the sixth form students to visit there establishment

• Our magazine will include music, games, tv/film and sports pages

• They will have one page each and will be based around the main concept of our magazine, the sixth form

• We also wanted to reach a larger audience and the only way to do this would be to include a wide variety of topics

• Our audience research was done by using two techniques, we used a questionnaire to find out most the research. We also used a online poll so that we could reach a wider audience

• We did the online poll so that we could get an outside perspective on what people would expect in a sixth form magazine

• The questionnaire that we did was short and multiple choice, because we didn’t want to bore people with it

• We found that most people wanted to know about gossip rather than news about the school, however they would expect to find news about the school instead of gossip

• This was useful to us, because now we can focus the magazine on things that would interest the reader

• However this makes our task quite difficult, because we will now have to balance the amount of news that is about the sixth form

We think that our magazine would be suitable to our target audience because we think it is unique and it is directed at a specific audience who we can relate to, and find out what they like. It is child friendly, it isn’t prejudice to anyone, this is so we don’t offend anyone.