01.Initial ideas school magzines

Today we started looking at different types of online school magazines, to gather ideas for our own music magazine. Looking through quite a lot of schools had a totally different theme, font, backgrounds ect per page. I did not like this effect as I felt it looked careless and unprofessional, therefore in my magazine I am going to try and carry through the same theme, colour arrangements and font, from the cover all the way through. 

An example of a good online school Magazine was "King Edward VI High School For Girls". there magazine was called "High Profile", and was very professional and informative. However they opted to change the fonts and idea themes through different pages which is what I don't like, but I do like the professionalism and simplistic layout. On the cover three clearly enthusiastic students have been used to show the schools success with there production of "Les Miserables'.














This is an example of a double page spread from the same magazine, completely different colour scheme to the cover to create a fresh and new idea per page. 
-Healthy images of food and lifestyle has been used to promote a healthy way of living- and as this is aimed at youths this is a sensible theme also involving the subject of science. 
-The font used contrasts with the earthy, natural pictures as it involves the technological science. Therefore they have used a Black, modernised sci-fi esque font to involve the idea of science. 
-The ratio of font to images is about 50/50. Therefore they have not scared the reader with lots of text, but then is educational as the text serves a purpose of being educational to young students. 


As this text is aimed at students, in my opinion it does not grab my attention and makes me want to read on however that could be the subject matter as this does not interest me. I feel they have tried to make it more interesting by adding images however realistically it is not what the majority of teenagers aged 13-18 would like to read.