1. The logo of the magazine was
The banner of the made big and bold to stand out to
magazine has useful its readers, size of the writing has
information for the reader been showed by the name of the
because it shows them magazine ‘The BUZZ’ you can see
what issue they are special attention is put into the
reading and what month last word ‘buzz’ by making it
or year its from so the capitals so it stands out even
reader knows if his up to more.
date on the magazine.
In my school magazine a lot of
The picture used on the cover bright colours involved to make
of the school magazine has the magazine attractive to the
been surrounded by a dark reader.
shade of blue, The reason for Here we have news which are
that is to make the picture happening around the school in
stand out from the rest of the the coming weeks like
background. interviewing the YouTube star
Humza Ashad the creator of the
As you might of noticed the
popular show Diary of a
colour purple is used a lot in
Badman, News about Jefferson's
this school magazine
piano talent (a well known
because it’s the colour of
student)and how book day was
the schools logo and
celebrated and then you have
students ties.
the chance to discover the
academy awards this shows that
Here they have included a possible the magazine is attempting to
money prize for a competition include more students by
which will be available to the informing us of news around
students which has a purpose of school.
attracting the reader In school Overall the magazine has a variety of colours, there is a lot of big and bright shapes which
activities and read on with the contain the information about the things you will be reading in the selected issue, it also
magazine. includes pictures on the front cover the simple purpose of that is to attract the reader .
2. The sub-heading of the magazine name shows that the
The logo of the magazine has
magazines are about students issues not just about the things
been made big and bold with a
that are happening around school this shows that the
bright green colour. Teenaged
magazine cares about the students point of view about things
Students are known to do a lot
like home work and school council They deliberately stood the student
of texting so the name of the
magazine being ‘sms’ is to out side her school to have more of
attract the students to read the an impact of this school magazine.
magazine as sms means the
same thing as texting.
On the front cover of the
magazine it has questions The magazine uses a student
which affect the students which looks keen on their
because its questions they studies you can tell this by
could be asking and they her body language and the
can read the magazine and books she’s holding, This
find out. large image links with the
main cover line ‘study smart’
Here we have questions this gives more reasons that
that students may want the aim of the magazine
to know so this proves my cover is to encourage
previous point which was students to focus on
that the magazine’s main studying.
purpose is to get the
opinion of the students. The font gives an
impression of being hand
written this shows it may
have been deliberately
The magazine has a footer excluded from the other
bar to inform students that fonts in order for it to
they can get advice from stand out the most.
the previous students of
the school, join
competitions for a possible Overall the magazine uses bright colours to make the magazine look appealing and attractive
reward and much, much towards students and make them enjoy reading it also the magazines main topics involves
more interesting activities. the questions that students are likely to be asking.
3. All the text is in upper case, which makes the whole magazine seem exciting or as if it’s a urgency that The date of the issue is
you read it to find out what other exciting information could be mentioned inside. The next thing you do clearly stated at top right
notice also is the image of the girl as all the big, bold writing is around her corner of the magazine so
that the reader is aware if
they are up to date on them.
The school magazine title ‘fly’ in
the top middle is written in big
bold fancy letters which makes it
seem laid back and fun.
The girl on the front The magazines text is chosen
cover of the magazine specially to convince the reader to
has her arms crossed, read it for example here we have a
and she’s standing chance for the students to win a prize
sideways looking up, which is ‘£100 worth of revision
her body language books’ you can tell they have made
shows that she most the ‘Win £100’ bolder then the rest
be thinking or day of the text to make it the key thing
dreaming about so it catches the readers eye first.
something enjoyable Other examples of that technique
being used in this magazine are ‘10
ways to’ and ‘Free’ these words in
This text has been put bold manipulate the reader into
into a dark shaded purple reading so that they feel as they need
circle to make it stand out that information.
from other texts on the
page so the reader might
think as that is another The magazine uses one of the
reason they should read it pupils as the background image to
make it clear that it is a school
magazine for students.
‘How to relieve pre-exam stress!!!’ has been put at the bottom of the magazine in a large text to
make it look as the most important piece of information on the page, Students will feel as if they
read it they will find out how to relive stress from all their important exams.