The document compares two school magazines - @Nunthorpe and Chosenhill. @Nunthorpe appears to target parents and promotes the school's work ethic and science specialism. Chosenhill has a more relaxed style and highlights a variety of articles, suggesting it is written by students for the whole school community. Both magazines use student photos on the cover to show the school's pride in its students, though @Nunthorpe's design is more formal to appeal to and recruit parents while Chosenhill has a conventional style providing school news.

1. School Magazine Comparison
Masthead
Cover lines
Strapline
Feature
Article
photo
Main Cover
Line

2. @Nunthorpe
This magazine’s title uses the school
name preceded by an ‘@’ symbol. As a
yearly magazine it’s probably written
by the adults for adults. The size of the
‘@’ is larger than the text which
emphasizes the fact that things are
happening at the school. The front
cover on the whole uses a lot of blue
for it’s colour scheme, which
encourages a work ethic amongst it’s
students. The photo used is of a
student, and by doing this it gives the
impression the school is proud to show
off it’s students and also highlight their
science specialism (also shown in the
subheading).

3. Chosenhill
Chosenhill appears to be a
magazine written for the whole
school community because it’s got
a laidback style but still retains a
sense of formality. The fact it
highlights a variety of articles
indicates that there are regular
issues released and that it’s
written by students. There’s not
much of a specific colour scheme
aside from use of the colour white,
which suggests cleanliness (or
boredom) to the reader.

4. Each magazine is made to appeal for similar but separate
audiences, with @Nunthorpe specifically targeted at
parents to entice them to enroll their children there. You
can see the Chosenhill one has a far more relaxed style
compared to the other, which clarifies it’s also meant to be
aimed at the students. However, the masthead used by
@Nunthorpe is still meant to appeal to young people
through use of the ‘@’ symbol.
The difference in designer can also be seen in other
elements of the front cover, where Nunthorpe has a
specific colour scheme (likely the schools colours) the
other is less specific. This is because Nunthorpe has to be
presentable enough to sell the school to people, whereas
the other is just a conventional magazine that provides
school news. A similarity is that they both use an image of
a respectable student figure, designed to highlight the
schools pride in their students.