MY IDEAS AND POSSIBLE TITLES

My Ideas

After analyzing two previous magazine covers and contents pages, also researching the conventions of magazine I have gained a lot of inspiration to create my own. I now understand the common themes that school magazines use and how they should be presented. Listed below are my ideas of themes I could base my magazine on:

1. BACK TO SCHOOL

One of my ideas for a 'back to school' themed magazine is to have the main image of a group of students looking fresh, smart and enthusiastic to go back to school. This means the students facial expressions will have to be very happy and cheerful and their body language will have to connote excitement and eagerness. The text positioned around the main image will read tips for a successful school year, advertising after school clubs, how to achieve a*'s and much more. The colour scheme will follow the colour's in the school logo which features blues, yellow and white so that my magazine clearly represents the school.

    2. CHIRSTMAS

My next idea is so design my magazine based on Christmas. This means I would dress-up my models in festive clothes such as Santa hats, Christmas jumpers or reindeer antlers. I would also edit my main image on Photoshop by changing the background to snow and adding extra images found from the internet such as candy canes or Christmas trees. The colour scheme would obviously be Christmas related meaning I would use reds, greens and white.

    3. HALLOWEEN

My last idea is to design my magazine as a special Halloween edition. The colours would represent the season therefore I would have to use lots of black, orange and overall dark shades. I would dress my models up in traditional spooky Halloween costumes such as witches, devils, zombies, pumpkins and skeletons. I would also do their hair and make-up to fit in with the theme. The font that I would use for the master head would be very creepy and alarming e.g. blood dripping from each individual letter, to attract the reader's attention. The sell lines would also be in a festive font but clearer to read as it would be positioned small. The text (coloured darkly) would read something like 'scary costumes ideas', 'top 10 tips for a spooky party' or '10 gruesome but delicious recipes'.

Possible Titles

• Chislehurst Times
• Chislehurst Express
• Chislehurst Mail

My inspiration for these ideas came from my internet research on different magazines and newspapers, not specifically school ones. For expample, instead of the 'Daily Mail' I used the word Chislehurst to replace 'Daily'. This is because the magazine is made by the school therefore their name should be included on it so everyone knows this.