Preliminary task

 

As you can see from my preliminary task I have stuck to the same idea the whole way throughout my work. I was able to do this as I had previously made a plan on how I wanted my school magazine cover and contents page to be based on. The plan that I made to follow was as follows:

Who is the target audience? - My target audience was students at St Mark's school along with their parents of the students.

Images-I planned on using students from St Mark's to be in my pictures for my magazine as they would be in the correct environment. I chose to use medium close up shots as they help to clearly show that is happening in the image and help to add to the effectiveness.

Language-I chose to use simple language as I knew that the students of the school wouldn't be interested or maybe struggle to read the information if I had used difficult and very formal language.

Content- I planned to reach my audiences expectations by only focusing on important information about St Mark's.

How would I attract the target audience- I planned to attract my target audience by using interesting and eye catching images and cover line stories so that they would want to read more. I also made sure that I used large images and smaller text as I believe that images would grip my target audience’s attention better.

Format- As I have just mentioned I planned on having large images so that the readers see the photos before they see the text. I placed the appropriate text on top of each cover line so that it was easy to understand what image was representing. However for the main cover line story I used larger text to show that that was the main story.

Iconography- I carried my idea of basing my magazine on St Mark's school the whole way through my preliminary task had to be based on school. I did this by using appropriate stories and images to relate well to the school environment.

House style- On both the front cover and contents page of my magazine I have used the same colour back ground and coloured font so that the audience could easily see that they were connected.