Magazine Photoshoot

Location Shoot

Font Feedback

I was unsure of what font I should use for the masthead of my school magazine. So I collected 4 fonts that I liked from the website 'Dafont.com' and screen-shotted them.

I then sent the screen-shot to my friends on the app 'Hangouts' to get their opinion on what font they thought I should use. Here are the results:

Magazine Sketches

Magazine Front Cover Sketch

Questionnaire Results

After giving my questionnaire to 30 people, I calculated the results and decided it would be best to turn the answers into pie charts so that I could easily analyse the results.

How often should the school magazine be released? 

The pie chart shows that 50% of the people asked said that they think the magazine should be released weekly. I also agree to release the magazine weekly because it allows readers of the magazine to keep updated with school life and events. 

How much would you willingly pay for a school magazine? 

The pie chart shows that most people would willingly pay between 50p and 60p for a school magazine, it also shows that no one would willingly pay £1. Using this information I make the price of the magazine 55p because it is a reasonable price as well as in-between the two most popular price choices. 

Questionnaire

Ideas

From researching the conventions and annotating magazine front covers I have been able to get an idea of what a typical school magazine looks like and what features they have. I have found it helpful to research different magazines because it has helped me to come up a few different ideas for my own school magazine. 

I have come up with 3 theme ideas for my magazine, which are; Seasonal, Autumn Term and Winter Term.  

Seasonal Ideas: 

If the magazine theme was to be seasonal I could take photographs of the school and students and edit them using photoshop to add halloween or christmas features such as blood, elves, vampire, snow, etc. I could include an article about seasonal themed charity events that are coming up within the month. 

Autumn Term Ideas: 

If the magazine theme was to be based of off the autumn term I could use colours associated to autumn such as red and orange. I could also take photographs of students in autumnal settings and include articles that are relevant to going back to school. 

Winter Term Ideas:

If the magazine was to be based of off the winter term I could use colours which are associated to cold weather such as blue. I could also take photographs of students wearing winter coats and hats, to portray the theme clearly.