Friday, 22 October 2010

School Magazine Contents Page Draft 3 Final Draft

This is the final draft of my school magazine contents page.
In order to improve the second draft, i changed the background colour in order to make it look more attractive. I aslo added two more photographs of the school in order to give parents more of an insight into the school.

School Magazine Front Cover Draft 3 Final Draft

This is the final draft of my school magazine front cover.
In order to improve my second draft, i changed the background colour as when i asked some students their opinions, they said that the background colour was boring as it was plain white. I also changed the name of my school magazine as when i asked some students their opinion, they said that they didn't like the name 'Biddulph High Flyer' and they thought that it didn't suit the magazine.

School Magazine Contents Page Draft 2

This is the second draft of my School magazine contents page.
In order to improve my first draft, i re-arranged the sub-titles and increased the size of them so that they filled the whole page and there is no longer empty space at the bottom of the page. I also added another photograph showing the school acheiving their outstanding Ofstead report.

School Magazine Front Cover Draft 2

This is the second draft of my school magazine front cover.
In order to improve the first draft, i added more cross-heads and re-aranged them around the photograph. I also added another photograph showing the outstanding Ofstead report that Biddulph High School acheived; this links to the 'Results Are In' cross-head.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

School Magazine Contents Page


This is the first draft of my school magazine contents page.
I asked some students for strengths and weaknesses and this is what they said:
The text overlaps her face, there is a large white empty space, the titles of the articles are a bit boring, the colour scheme reflects the colours of the school logo.

School Magazine Cover


This is the first draft of my school magazine cover.

I asked some students for the strengths and weaknesses of my school magazine cover. This is what they said:
More subheadings are needed, add a splash, use coloured background, a good font is used. 

School Magazine Preliminary

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

School Magazine Contents Page Research

I carried out this research on school magazine contents pages in order to give me an idea of the techniques that make a school magazine contents page look effective and the techniques that make a school magazine contents page look uneffective. This will help me when designing my own school magazine contents page for my preliminary task.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Double Page Spread Research

I carried out this research in order to give me an idea of the effects used on double page spreads that make them look effective.

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

School Magazines Research

I carried out this research in order to give me an idea of some of the techniques that i can use on my school magazine preliminary task.

Existing Magazines Research

I carried out this research to give myself an idea of the layout, colour schemes and techniques used on music magazines in order to make them effective. This research will help me with my music magazine project.