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AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – School Magazine Front Page Proposal Form

Target audience: My target audience is the older years in Preston Manor, such as
(age range, interests) years 11, 12 and 13. After deciding this I made my magazine
Although it is a school newsletter you still more sophisticated by putting less pictures than I normally
have to think about your audience and would for the younger years.
how to appeal to them.

Possible title ideas: My magazine is called “Preston Press”. I put this name at the top
(masthead / title block) of the magazine and made it bigger and bolder then the rest of
What is your magazine going to be called? the writing so that the audience would know that it was the
title.
Main image: My main image was of a girl with her student card around her
What will be the focal point of your front neck. I made her the biggest picture in the front page so the
page, remember, your work “must include audience know that she is the main focus.
a photograph of a student in a medium
close-up”

Main cover line: The main story was about applying to become head boy or head
What will be the main story? girl. I decided this because I wanted it to only apply to the older
years and then to involve the year 11’s my second story was
about revision classes for exams.
Additional key images: I decided not to put any other pictures on the front page,
What other images will be on your front because I didn’t want them to take the focus away from the
cover? main image. I put the rest of the images on the contents page.
Remember, it is a school magazine.

Typography: I made the colour of the writing pink and blue. I chose these
(style, size, colour of copy) colours because I wanted it to match my background and so
Think about the writing and the style of that it would have some sort of continuity throughout the
the writing on your front page. magazine.

Background colour/image: My background for both the front page and the contents page
What will be in the background, remember was pink and blue. I chose these colours so that it would show
you don’t want to take the focus away that my magazine was for both girls and boys.
from the main image.

Technical considerations: I had the student on my front cover in a smart outfit with her
(equipment, setting, props, student card around her neck to show that she attends Preston
costume, lighting) Manor.
Be realistic and creative, think about what
you have access to and how you could use
it.

Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers
must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text
and use of an image manipulation programme (Photoshop).
Below start to sketch what the front cover of your newsletter will look like.

Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers
must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text
and use of an image manipulation programme (Photoshop).
Below start to sketch what the contents page of your newsletter will look like.

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