Finished Magazine...

Contents Page...

This is my finished contents page. 

At the bottom of the page I included photos that I had previously taken myself, I feel that these photos represent the school well. 

On the left hand side are the articles, I decided that I didn't just want the title of the article, but also a description to go along with each one. 

Knowing that I had a description for each article allowed me to be more creative with the the titles instead of just stating the obvious. 

I still tried to keep the theme of Halloween apparent by using it in the text, I used language such as 'If you dare' and included exclamation marks where appropriate.

Cover...

This is my finished magazine cover. 

Although I used the template shown previously to help me achieve this, some changes were made throughout the process. 

I used a website called 'Pic Monkey' which helped me edit my photo to make it look more eery and more like a Halloween magazine. I did this by changing the colour and tone of the picture and making it more blurry. I also did subtle changes such as putting spiders on the tree and placing a grave stone over a bin in the background. 

I also needed to crop the bottom of the photo to make it mid-shot. 

I changed the colour of the Masthead as you could not read it when it was black so it is now white. 

The colour of the articles vary between green and orange, these are typical colours you would find relating to Halloween. I gave the outside of the text a glow so that they stand out from the dark background.  

Mock Of Contents Page...

This is the mock of my contents page which I created using InDesign.

It shows what the colour of the background will be, I chose black as it goes with the Halloween theme, it will also make things on the page stand out more.

On the right hand side I decided to include the cover of the magazine along with arrows showing what page that article is on. I saw this idea in many other magazines and thought I would include it on my own.

At the bottom of the page I will have photos of the school as I still wanted it to look like a school magazine. I chose to place the image of the front of the school on its own as I feel that this is the most important image as it is the most welcoming. 

The articles will be placed along the left of the page and I chose to have the text in orange as this is a popular Halloween colour. 

In the top right hand corner I have included the school logo, I also did this on the cover. I chose to do this on both pages because they are very different from each other and I wanted some continuity within my magazine.

Mock Of Magazine Cover...

This is the mock of my magazine cover.

It shows where I will place things, what the background will be, the font of the text and the colours used. 

I created this mock using InDesign, which I found to be quite difficult at first because I had never used it before. 

Using this layout I will go on to create the cover for my magazine.

Target Audience...

The target audience for my magazine is going to be sixth form students at Beaverwood. As the sixth form is mixed I need to make sure that the articles, colours, wording and photos can be related to both male and female, therefore I will not use bold colours such as pink as this may be viewed as too feminine. The colour palette that I will be choose will represent the school's identity, so I will be using blue, green and white. I will also add colours such as orange, black and purple because the theme of the magazine is Halloween. Looking at the results from my questionnaire I understand that the students do not want a "serious" magazine, I don't want the magazine to be too informal as it is still a school magazine, but I want to make sure that students can relate to it.

Conventions Of A Magazine Front Cover...

Observation	Impact on My Work
Most of the magazine covers I looked at had one large image covering the whole page. The cover photos were mainly mid-shots of one of two students. The students often look at the camera as they take part in a classroom activity or an extracurricular activity.	I plan to photograph two students for my cover shot and have them face on towards the camera, to show that they are welcoming. I will take a mid-shot whilst including some of the background. Although it’s a popular choice to have the students engaged in a particular activity, I intend to have the pupils looking at the camera and have some of the school’s scenery in the background.
Titles and mastheads often include the school name, references to a school mascot or some kind of ‘private joke’ targeting students.	I would like to include the school’s name, Beaverwood, in the title of them magazine. Also, due to a popular sub-culture of social networking I will replace the word ‘at’ to ‘@’ for the title.
The colour palette used often reflects the schools uniform colours. Sometimes it related to a season or theme for the magazine. The colours used also reflected the gender the magazine was aimed at.	For my magazine I am going stay as close to the Beaverwood colours as I can, this includes blue, green and white.   The theme for my magazine is Halloween so I will also include colours such as orange, black and purple.
Most of the school magazines I researched had their logo somewhere on the page, this is so they give their own uniqueness to the magazine and so that it is recognisable as their own.	I will use the Beaverwood logo on the cover, I will place it somewhere relevant such as the top right hand corner but will make it quite small as I do not want this to be the main focus on the cover.