Exsiting media

To be able to create my own school magazine I needed to research existing school magazines to understand what common convection's I will need to follow to create a successful school magazine. I annotated two different magazines to find this out.

This school magazine follows many of the common conventions such as the masthead and the sell lines. On the other hand there is no anchoring text to the main image for us as the audience to understand the image.

I looked at another magazine called FFH and annotated that one too to see if there was any difference between different school magazines.

 

This school magazine also follows many of the common conventions but similarly to the magazine 'College' it does not show an anchoring text to the main image. This magazine also has a contents summary on the front page which is not a common convention. The contents is traditionally inside of the magazine but unusually it has a small preview on the front cover.

 

I will also need to take into consideration whether the school is a grammar school or a comprehensive school. The difference in schools would make a huge different to the image of the magazine and the target audience. For example, the target audience for a grammar schools magazine is parents who are in a higher social class to the target audience for a comprehensive school which is parents in a lower social class. To relate to my target audience, i will need to use specific langauge and images.