04. Front cover of school magazine

After taking the original images, today I started to make my front cover. I decided to call the magazine "Southfield Termly" so that it clearly states that we are going to issue the magazine termly instead of weekly or monthly which was suggested in the focus group, but realistically I decided that this would have to be published termly.  The font I used was "Princeton let", which is actually similar to the 'High School Musical" marketing campaign, I picked it because it was bold, bright and eye catching and clearly has connotations of a school.
As the main cover photo I put a picture of our main story which focuses on the success of Amy Mullet who had the opportunity to play for England football youth girls team. At the right had side of her picture I wrote  "Insider" in a bold font to grab the readers attention, and then wrote "Amy Mullet's best tips and tricks into making England's football team". I thought this phrase summed up the column nicely and was straight to the point alongside being catchy through the use of alliteration. Also it doesn't give too much information away making people want to find out more. The use of bold on certain words is to put emphasis on them the reason why I did that on the "England football team" is because it is really well known and is a great and well known achievement. Also without reading the text inbetween this will immediately bring interest from sport lovers, boys and peers which is main focus regarding our target audience. 
Also on the right hand side I had another "box" of text saying "Canteen Special Chinese new year menu and fun". I believe this will become a regular thing whenever the canteen do themed lunches to put it in the magazine to let everyone know and market there hard work and attention to detail. On the double page I would include pictures of the food being served and the students and staff enjoying them, an interview with one of the chefs and students, possibly a recipe so people could try and make it home to encourage cooking. I have put most of the information to the right hand side because i didn't want the front cover to be too busy however I didn't want to make the front cover look boring. The teenage girls magazine "Look" is the type of magazine cover I like as I feel it is just right and effective. Although this magazine is aimed at teenage girls I tried to take the layout and messed around with it to make it more unisex, but tried to keep the eye catching touches they have included, like a main picture, the heading, and little bubbles of information. 

On the left hand side I had 6 ribbons of different colours showing the different house colours, to encourage the friendly competition between houses. In the focus groups they all liked the idea of focusing on the houses, stats from attendance figures, no. of house points, any up and coming events and the form house quiz. I think this effect will be used on every cover alongside the Heading "Southfield termly" as it is catchy and cool. Another idea that I think will become popular and stay in every episode is the "A day in the life of..". During the focus group the students said they would want something to make fun of the teachers, obviously we couldn't nasty or disrespectful. So if we focused on episode on a member of the staff, possibly interviewing them asking emmbaressing moments questions and a like daily diary of what they get up to in a day could be quite interesting and light hearted.


This is my cover for my School Magazine!