School Magazine Layout - Self Assessment

On our school magazine layout we have developed some ideas from the norms of school magazines from the information we gained from the research task but also have kept to the normal magazine aspects. 

Firstly the ideas we have developed by not following the magazine norms is to have cover lines at the bottom of our page to give more information about the pictures we have sourced above. As seen in the research analysis tasks, normal school magazines do not use cover lines on the front cover and depend entirely on the images alone. This helps to contribute to the professionalism of the magazine however we have decided to break this rule because we thought it was more appropriate for our target audience. By positing small cover lines at the bottom of the page our magazine keeps a professional layout while going against the predictable school magazine norms.

For the majority of the layout we have kept to the usual school magazine norms as we wanted to keep it safe and not do anything to out there which will hinder the effect that we want our magazine to create. The aspects that we have stuck to are; to keep to the school's colours, mainly for the background but can also be used for the text, to use images on our front cover to display more information about what's inside and lastly to keep to a simple layout which is not too crowded. This way it keeps to the aim of our magazine and will attract our target audience. It also keeps to a professional manner that will appeal to the parents of the school's students.

We use the layout to attract the right social group and audience for our magazine, which is the parents of the schools students. The professional layout is aimed at parents who most likely want to see that their child having fun and learning. They want to know that they have sent their children to the right school and by producing a high quality magazine with good content about school achievements such as sports events and school shows parents will feel confident that their child is spending everyday in a good place. Parents will want to know what their children have been up to and by using pictures and small cover lines in a professional layout they can easily access this information.