The document summarizes the design elements of a school magazine cover. It notes that the cover features a smiling girl to attract readers and show her happiness about exam results. However, it says too much text on the front page could deter readers, so less important stories should be removed. It also comments that only featuring one person on the cover may limit design choices, and that using blander colors for the writing could make it harder to notice among other magazines.

1. By Nathan Fawthrop

2. Smiling, centre of
magazine, used to
attract audience in
and show that she
is happy about her
GCSE results.
Masthead,
big font with
dark colours
and light
coloured
glow
On the right hand
side we see bright
writing to attract the
reader in, with the
more important
stories being on
there, such as the
results of GCSE and
changes in the
school. This is an
important part to
have as it will allow
the reader to know
the main stories and
make them want to
read more into it.

3. On this magazine, we
see things like a barcode
and pricing, but we see a
big issue that the
majority of the front
page is taken up by text
and could pull people
away from reading the
magazine, a way to fix
this would be by
organising the writing
more and removing the
less important stories so
people will want to get a
quick view and see
what’s important, as the
majority of people who
buy magazines decide
which one they want in
under 5 seconds.
We see that there
is one person on
the shot in the
middle here, the
same as the last
magazine which
may mean it’s a
good idea, but this
may limit my
choices of ideas for
a magazine as
there would only
be one person, I
may add another
person and make
the magazine look
more friendly to
read.
We see that the writing on the blog is quite a
bland colour, which could lower the chances
of someone seeing it, as the colour would be
hard to see in the mass of brightly coloured
and vibrant magazines