Brief

Brief: to design and create the front cover and contents page for a school magazine aimed at school pupils.

Audience targeting;

• You must identify clearly the audience you are targeting
• You may pick any age group of pupils for your target audience.
• The research you have undertaken must be evident in your work.
• Your research you do can be taken in the form of: interviews, Focus groups and surveys aimed at your audience.

 Wider reading;

• You must Research into the Genre of the school magazine.
• This research should feature: style of Contents, the topics covered, style of images used, publication cost and legal restrictions,

Preliminary production;

• Research and draft work (free-hand drafting)

Magazine conventions;

• Should include: clear house style, 2 or 3 main colours to identify types of text, clear and attracting images, and cost, date, name of magazine etc.

Contents page

• Certain Images from selected articles
• competitions
• Information of team behind magazine production
• Clearly laid out contents list