Target Audience Profile

Amy is 18 years old, she enjoys going out with her friends and partying. She finds it important that she has a good social life and she enjoys being young and free. She spends her summer attending different music festivals across the UK. Amy and her friends favourite part of a festival is the dance tent that features house music. It is now a popular genre of music for younger people and is a fast growing industry for DJs and MCs.
Amy now has a full time job and therefore enjoys attending a wide range of musical events on the weekends. She tries her best to see all house DJs when they make special appearances at different venues.
She saves her money so that she can afford to keep up with her obsession with dance tents and house music.

Contents Page preliminary task

 



For my contents page, I have used the same font as there is on the front cover, showing a fluent design throughout the magazine. If I were to do this again I would insure I took images to put onto the contents page and I would also use a smaller font so there was room for other images and perhaps slightly more text.

Choosing a cover photo

I had two photos to choose from of my chosen cover model, with both photos I would have had to crop out the background and insure the photo was a mid shot and not a full body.
The first photo shows my cover model smiling in an outdoor environment with the light reflecting, this is a warm and friendly photo. The model is also wearing smart uniform with a blazer and this promotes the idea that the magazine is for those who wish to be well presented.
My second photo shows two well dressed students smiling, however the way in which they are standing does not show pride in the school as much as the first photo and is more relaxed. Due to the first issue of my magazine being about outstanding Ofsted results, I am going to choose the first photo where the school logo is prominent and neat.
When I edited the first photo to be my final image. I edited and blended out the background so that the image was more focussed on the cover model. I also cropped the image to be a mid-shot of the model as asked in the preliminary task.

Final Front Cover

I have chosen this as my final magazine cover because it is friendly but simplistic. I blended in the photo and the background so there was an emphasis on the text rather then the cover model. It is still clear however that the cover model is happy and friendly.

I put a quote from the cover model as the cover line to give a quick summary of how the student finds the school. This makes it more personal to the readers and would make the magazine be conveyed as interesting.

The puff on my cover is to attract customers to want to read about reports given by Ofsted. It is a highly respected rated for parents.

Planning for photoshoot

For my photo shoot, I plan to use a student who is aged roughly 14 who is entering into their GCSE year. This is because it shows the anticipation for  young student to enter into the two most important school years in secondary school. I also chose this age period because GCSEs are sat by everyone when going through secondary school and could therefore be a relatable topic to a target audience.

For the photo shoot I will use an iPhone 6 Plus as the quality of the image will be a lot better and it easy to transfer the photos onto the computer once they have been taken.

The student will be wearing a blazer and shirt of St Gregory's school to show an example of a smart and well dressed student. It will also convey someone who is caring of their appearance and wants to be a good representative of their school.

The facial expression of the cover model must be smiling and excited to suggest that they are eager to start their school year as an older student with more responsibility. Also, if their smiling it gives off a warm feeling for the magazine and would encourage customers to purchase the magazine.

School Magazine Mock Up

For my first attempt of a school magazine, i have experimented with different fonts and worked out a format in which i would want my magazine to be. For my real version, i am going to insure that the image is cut out more accurately and the colours i use are more professional and correlate well.

School Magazine

Within this school magazine, they have used certain magazine conventions to make it attractive to certain readers.
A usual convention on a school magazine would be a young child. This magazine uses this and is clearly aimed at parents due to the Masthead. By having a bold title with the name of the audience, immediately, parents are going to want to read into what the magazine is about

My first post

This is my first experience using blogger as I have never made a blog before. I am starting my AS Media course this year and I am very apprehensive to how I will do.