1. Name: ___________________________________
AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – School Magazine Front Page Proposal Form
Target audience: My target audience is aimed at students of the secondary school
(age range, interests) (ages 11-16). All information on the contents and title page will
Although it is a school newsletter you still be aimed at the entire school as it will contain information such
have to think about your audience and as the uniform changing etc.
how to appeal to them.
Possible title ideas: ‘Preston Manor Magazine’
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Main image: My main image will be a MCU of a student
What will be the focal point of your front
page, remember, your work “must include
a photograph of a student in a medium
close-up”
Main cover line: My main story will be
What will be the main story?
Additional key images:
What other images will be on your front
cover?
Remember, it is a school magazine.
Additional cover lines:
Other features, stories or selling points
which will be inside the magazine, these
need to be audience appropriate.
Typography:
(style, size, colour of copy)
Think about the writing and the style of
the writing on your front page.
Background colour/image:
What will be in the background, remember
you don’t want to take the focus away
from the main image.
Technical considerations:
(equipment, setting, props,
costume, lighting)
Be realistic and creative, think about what
you have access to and how you could use
it.

2. Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers
must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text
and use of an image manipulation programme (Photoshop).
Below start to sketch what the front cover of your newsletter will look like.

3. Preliminary exercise: produce a front page and contents page of a school magazine. Front covers
must include a photograph of a student in a medium close-up with appropriately laid out text
and use of an image manipulation programme (Photoshop).
Below start to sketch what the contents page of your newsletter will look like.