Preliminary School Magazine Cover

Above is the first draft of my school magazine front cover.

I decided to name the magazine 'Southfield Review', during my research I found a good example of a school magazine named 'The Revue'. I was fond of the title, therefore I changed the masthead to the original spelling 'review' and put Southfield before it, as I believe it is important to address the name of the school on the front cover.

Beneath the title is the sub line, my sub line says 'the guide to sixth form', I wanted to create a magazine that was for year 11 students going into year 12. I thought this would be an original idea, as going into sixth form is a huge step, therefore advice for this would be helpful.

After taking different images, I decided to choose this one. I tried to create the idea of studying being fun. The girl in my picture is a fellow sixth former, it shows her at work , but also smiling. This represents the student as being happy in the sixth form. A problem I faced when creating the cover was deciding the text as the background caused a problem. It was a natural background, which meant there were different colours this resulted in there not being a specific colour theme. If I could do this again I would make sure the background was white so I could decide easily on the text. The font has to be black, so it was visible for the reader and would stand out from the natural background.

The text surrounding the picture :

'sixth form social event - coming soon' - I thought this would be good for the sixth form magazine as it will make the new students feel at ease, they will be able to look forward to event and to go and make new friends.

'ditch the nerves, its time to meet your fellow sixth formers' - this again is helpful, as if I was to create the whole magazine my idea would be to take pictures of each student. This will help new students recognise new faces.

'how to keep on top of your a levels' - this would advertise students as a levels are extremely difficult and is a big step, therefore there would be advice to keep on top of the work.

'the uniform has finally been ditched, so what to wear?' - Going into sixth form is a change, not only to new subjects but the uniform changes. This may worry students having to have a different outfit every day, therefore offering advice on what you could wear would be suitable advice.

'win a cool sixth form pack' - Noticeably a magazine front cover convention is to win something. I didn't want to go against convention, therefore advertising a sixth form pack is interesting for students.