This is my preliminary task research that I have done before starting the making process of my school magazine. So here is my magazine research:
I
will be doing some research on a school magazine to see what they have done on
this magazine on the front page and also on the contents page. I will be looking
at the fusion school magazines front page and also the content page to see what
i think is good about them and also what I would like to use when making my own
school magazine. In this research I will be making three points on the front
page design first and then I will be making three points on the contents page
after that. This research will help me in the planning of my school magazine as
this will help me to see what I could think about using in my school magazine.
Cover:
On
the front page of this fusion newsletter there is the name of the newsletter in
white with the background in red with a girl on the page with here face in
black and also white. The front page also has smaller white text to the left
side of the page that says what is going to be in the issue of the magazine.
There is also some other text over the white part of the girls face with the
words in red. With the front page being in these same three colours white,
black and red this helps to make the whole of the magazine to have a colour
scheme of these three colours. I feel that this helps to make the magazine
stand out with it only mainly using these colours on the front page. I think
that this would be a good thing for me to use on my school magazine as this
would help my magazine stand out if it had a colour scheme to it that was made
up of colour that are bright and also eye-catching. I will not use the same
colours for my colour scheme that have been used on this magazine as I will
using my own colours that I will choice.
Something
else that has been used on the front page of the fusion school newsletter is
only a small amount of text as there is not a really big amount inside of the
school magazine, as it is not like an normal magazine as the school magazine
has less in it as there is less to talk about in an school magazine. So there
is a small amount of text on the front cover of the magazine, as normally there
is a small amount of text on the front page of a magazine but there is even
less as there is not as much in this school magazine. I think that this is a
good thing that has been done on this magazine and I feel that it would also be
a good thing to do on my school magazine. As it will help to make my school
magazine more eye-catching as you will be able to see the image better. So I
will try and do this on my magazine.
The
last thing that I will be talking about on the front cover of the magazine will
be that that there is only one large image on the front page that takes up the
whole of the front page. This helps to show that the image that is being used
on the front of the magazine is important in showing something about the school
or about school life as it is large so that the image will be seen in an easy
way and also be eye-catching. I think that the image that has been used on the
front of this magazine is maybe a piece of art work that one of the students
have done. I feel that this would be an
good thing to do on my magazine as it shows one main image that is more
eye-catching for people how may be thinking about reading it. So I think that I
may do this on my magazine.
Contents:
On
the contents page there is the page numbers and what the page is called, there
is then a small description below the page name and number to tell the reader
what these pages will be about. So that they can see what pages will be about
so then they can see what they may be interested in reading. I feel that this
is a good thing to do on the contents page as then it will give the reader an
idea of what is on the pages, I think that this would be good to use on my
school magazine as then it will make it easy to see the name page number and
what the page is all about.
Something
else that is on the contents page is there a good use of a colour scheme. The
names of the pages and the numbers are in different bright colours. There is
also a use of text boxes that have coloured backgrounds with white or black
text on them. So there has been a good use of colours without having a lot of
colours on the background and it being to over the top. As also there has been
a large amount of colour used on the front page of the magazine. The background
colour of the fusion magazine is white this helps to make the other coloured text
boxes and text stand out more, without having to much colour being used. I feel
that this is a good idea as then there is not just the background in colour and
the text and other things on the content page all in one colour. I think that it would be a good idea to use
this idea on my contents page of my school magazine.
On
the contents page there is only one medium sized image that is mainly on the
top half of the page. There are also some coloured text boxes that have other
text in and also the actual contents are on the page. But there is only really
the one main image which is of a tape for a caste player. I think that this is
a good use of the page as then there is still room for having the contents on
the page with out the rest of the page being plain or being to busy and having
lot of images on or one really big one that takes up the whole of the page. I
think that on this school newsletter the use of only the one image that is
medium size instead of being really big is a good use of the space on the
contents page. I feel that I will be doing this and not using the entire page
with just one big image and having the contents in small text using a small
amount of text. So then there will be room for other things on the contents
page for other things. So I will be doing this on my magazine of having not a really
big large image, but having a medium sized on instead.
