2. Information about the picture showing what has
happened in the picture and is the main story of
the school as it takes up more of the page than
any other story.
A news column letting people know what
happening in the school
Headline , or
tittle , main
bit of
information.
Put in bold
Logo
Image: giving the
impression the
school is sporty.
Sports section: talking
about lots of different
sports showing they do
different sports.
Advertisement:
showing the school is
in association with
businesses.
3. Logo
Title : big bold, shows
signs of importance.
Contents : shows
what is in the issue
Title: In bold and sais
“success” meaning their good at
football.
Main pictures is of
football and the school
teams, this shows sport
is the important to this
school and they are
good at it especially
football.
4. AS Media Studies Preliminary Task – School Magazine Front Page Proposal Form
Target audience:
(age range, interests)
Although it is a school newsletter you still have to think about your
audience and how to appeal to them.
11-70, this is the range as it will be for students parents and teachers. It has to have news on the school and
about important headlines.
Possible title ideas:
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Title of main story of the school. Have information about head teacher etc…
Priory news
Priory weekly
Main image:
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”
The focal point and main image should be a image about or relating to the main story or headline of the
newspaper or magazine.
Main cover line:
What will be the main story?
Something that has recently happened in the school ( yr. 10 wins football tournament)
Additional key images:
What other images will be on your front cover?
Remember, it is a school magazine.
School logo
Picture of the school (pupil or the building)
Some of teachers
Additional cover lines:
Other features, stories or selling points which will be inside the
magazine, these need to be audience appropriate.
Main events
Information (uniform, buses, results)
Sports and achievements
Typography:
(style, size, colour of copy)
Think about the writing and the style of the writing on your front page.
Consistent
Basic colours black or grey,
Bold for titles
Background colour/image:
What will be in the background, remember you don’t want to take the
focus away from the main image.
Not the same colour as the tex5t else you wont be able to read it
Not to bright to take attention away from the 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.
Props would include a text book, table, pencil/pen and an exercise book for the main cover, and pieces of
Paper for the photo of students with their results
Lighting will be natural, people included will be in sixth form attire. The setting will vary from being in a
Classroom to being outside to show a variety of the school.
5. 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.
6. 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.
9. Extreme Close-Up (ECU)
Big Close-Up (BCU)
Close-Up (CU)
Medium Close-Up (MCU)
Medium Shot (MS)
Medium Long Shot (MLS)
Long Shot (LS)
Very Long Shot (VLS)
Two Shot (any shot with two characters or objects equally framed)
‘Over the Shoulder Shot’
Interviewee looks into space in the frame
Moving Subject Walks into Space
High Angle Shot (looking down)
Low Angle Shot (looking up)
Tilted Frame (Canted/Dutch Angle)
10. Brief
• We were asked to make a magazine front
cover and contents page, we were using the
software we will use for our music magazine.
This software was Photoshop. We roughly
designed it on a piece of paper to get a ruff
idea on what to do.
11. Notes on the process
In took 3 medium shots and I choose the
one circles as I think it shows the persons
personality and it was more fun and less
serious than the others making it more
natural.
12. Audience research
Comment How many people said this
Photos of the school 4
Key information about results 11
Info about Ofsted 3
Information about
3
departments
Head speech 6
informative 2
Clear and easy to read 3
13. I have learnt …
From this I have learnt how to create a
effective front cover and contents page on
Photoshop, I have used research and
applied this and I have learnt what certain
audiences want from a school magazine. I
have learned how to use programs in a
more complex way and apply certain tools
on Photoshop to make a more complex
design.
14. Editing a image
On my images I just removed the
background mostly by using a magic
wand and quick selection tool, I also
added black and white effect to my
images by clicking “images”
“adjustments” then “black and white”
