This document outlines preliminary tasks for researching school magazines, including conventions of school magazines, how they differ in terms of color, font, images and themes used, layout and what makes magazines interesting or not, mise-en-scene techniques around lighting, hair, makeup and setting, and what makes a good school magazine.

1. Prelim Task
• Research:
2. Conventions of School Magazines.
3. How do they differ? Colour, font,
images, themes??
4. Layout – what makes them interesting
or not?
5. Mise-en-Scene – how do they use
lighting? Hair, make up? Setting?
6. What makes a good school magazine?