1. Name: _______Jordan.J____________________________
AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – School Magazine Front Page Proposal Form
Target audience: I choose my target audience to be 16-18 year olds which is the
(age range, interests) sixth form sector. My stories will be substantially relevant to my
Although it is a school newsletter you still target audience as all stories will either concern , involve and be
have to think about your audience and of some relevance to them (eg. Designs for the new sixth form
how to appeal to them.
block)
Possible title ideas: Possible title ideas – PMANOR , PRESS, Press mag
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Main image: The focal point of my magazine will be a medium shot , the
What will be the focal point of your front image will be of my model relevant to my main story. The
page, remember, your work “must include purpose of using this image is to show immediately to the
a photograph of a student in a medium
close-up”
audience my main article/magazine is revolving around him
Main cover line: The main story of my magazine will be on the shocking split of
What will be the main story? Preston Manor’s school band , with band member (pianist)Jamal
Jackson revealing all on the split. I will use words such as
‘Exclusive and shocking’ to interest and lure the audience into
reading the article
Additional key images: I will not include any other images on my magazine front cover ,
What other images will be on your front I chose to do this as I want to draw all of the audiences
cover? attention to my main story , I use
Remember, it is a school magazine.
Additional cover lines: Other stories I will include will be on sports and the results of
Other features, stories or selling points Head Boy and Head Girl , I chose to include sports as it is a
which will be inside the magazine, these common talking point in school discussion , reference to the
need to be audience appropriate.
school football/basketball/rugby team as well as possibly
references to real football news will most likely attract a wide
male audience. I chose to include the results for head boy and
girl as I believe it is a subject in which many people , especially
those who voted , would be interested to find out. Furthermore
I chose this to show to balance out the gender dominance with
the inclusion of sports and a main image of a male and show my
magazine is unisex.
Typography: I choose to use the Title @p.manor this connotes the relevance
(style, size, colour of copy) to my target audience who rely on the internet for daily
Think about the writing and the style of essentials. The font I used was Gills Sans Ultra Bold I decided to
the writing on your front page. use this font as it went well with the red text colour to help
make my stories more eye-catching which , if interesting,
hopefully lure the audience into reading on.
Background colour/image: At first my background colour was blue and yellow , however I
What will be in the background, remember thought it looked too much like a leaflet and lacked the qualities
you don’t want to take the focus away of a successful magazine. I used the colours black and white
from the main image.
(stripes) which I thought went well with the red font , I also used
the colour silver which is generally regarded as a unisex colour.

2. These are not necessarily regarded as vibrant colours but draw
more attention the red typography which I found to be effective
Technical considerations:
(equipment, setting, props,
costume, lighting)
Be realistic and creative, think about what
you have access to and how you could use
it.

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 front cover of your newsletter will look like.

4. 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.