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.