School Magazine Mock Idea Contents Page

Contents Page

Here is my contents page, as it is the mock up it is very minimal with no colour. But again, as I said on the front cover blog post, I will make sure that the magazine is colourful. For the layout of both, I will most likely follow how it looks but edit the kind of images that will be used.

School Magazine Mock Idea Front Page

Mock up

Here is the school magazine draft mock up. There isn't colour other than the red and black, this will be changed in the final product. I will attempt to make it as colourful as I can without making it look idiotic. I just want it to stand out to the audience.

Edited Photos for School Magazine

Edited Photos

Here are the Edited photos I am going to use for my magazine. I have just edited out the backgrounds because that's all i needed to do.

Original Photos for School Magazine

Original Photos

Here are the original photos I am going to use for my magazine.

Magazine Research (International School)

Magazine Research

For this last magazine there is a main colour scheme of blue and white, the children’s uniforms are blue as is the logo, there is white in the background of the children. The whole magazine itself gives of a simple but professional look with these colours. The white allows the blue to stand out to its full potential and it is able to be seen from far away. In the bottom right, there is another little logo which can catch your eye and it also follows the house colours.

The dating and volume is also something that is well placed and allows the reader to understand what they're buying. The dating and volume are coloured white while being on the child’s dark blue jumper meaning it is really noticeable and strands out easily.

The image of the children seems to give off a vibe to parents that primary school is a happy place. The image shows two young girls playing together as the main part of the image. The magazine also shows other young girls in the background also having fun. As this magazine is aimed at parents I believe that the happiness of these children might be a selling point to the parents as the parents will want their children to be as happy as possible. The image is also an action shot, this is unusual for many school magazines as they usually have main person posed.

As this magazine is aimed at parents and is about the primary area of school, the strapline is actually in the middle of the page to stand out for all to see. ‘Focus on the primary sector’, this strapline isn't very catchy however it get the main point across that this magazine in fact, actually does focus on the primary sector and this will act as another selling point

Magazine Research (College Life)

Magazine research

For the second magazine it has a colour scheme of orange, white and a blue/green background. These colours aren't the main attraction of this magazine as there is a female student with bright skin and a pile of books which sticks out to the readers. She is smiling which can indicate the same thing as the first magazine, that she’s enjoying college and it’s a great place to be all of the time. You know she’s a college student as she is holding books and folders to show she does a lot of work.

There are cover lines on the side which usually link to stories inside the magazine, such as the ‘healthy eating on a college budget’ some readers may look at this and feel as if they have to buy it as they are not very good with their money and usually spending money on rubbish. Another example is the fact that they used the colour red in one of the advertisements; the ad for the valentine’s gift has large red love hearts to catch the reader’s eye. Red is usually associated with love so this is why red is there. This again creates urgency to buy the “College life’s” product.

All of the magazines are competing to be bought in the shops for people’s cash, at the top; above the masthead there is a banner showing that this magazine is apparently “The best source for all things about college life”. A lot of the magazines create this urgency to buy their product as it may be the best magazine or the most descriptive or even the magazine with the best gossip. The wordings the magazines use are words such as ‘best’ or ‘first’, this makes it seem as if this magazine the reader is looking at is actually the number one mag to buy.

Magazine Research (College Lifestyle)

Magazine Research

For this magazine, there is a colour scheme of black and yellow. The black background allows the yellow to stand out when in the magazine shop to draw people in to take a look at what the magazine is about and what is included inside. I feel that the yellow colour can indicate that you will have a bright future as yellow is, in my eyes one of the brightest colours. There is also the text which is white allowing it to be easily read on the dark background. The student is also following the colour scheme with his clothing, his coat is black and his t shirt is white.

The masthead is in yellow, however even though it really noticeable and catches your eye, the main image is covering some of it up to make main image stand out and focus your eyes on it. The main image is the student gazing into the readers eyes with a smile to show as if he’s enjoying his time at this specific college; this could translate into the fact that he’s smiling about the college so the magazine must be as good as he’s implying.

The magazine has a strapline underneath the masthead, this can sometimes be a funny slogan, and however in this case it seems to be that it’s actually giving some information off to allow the reader to have a rough idea on what it’s about. ‘Lifestyle’ can indicate that it’s the life within the specific college and how the students live inside college. If the magazine didn't have ‘Lifestyle’ it probably wouldn't make too much of a difference but some people might think it’s about college in general and not the students’ lives and what they do in college.

Above the masthead there is a small banner saying that this magazine has everything you need to know. Using the word ‘need’ creates urgency pushing the viewer to buy the product. It also shows the date of the magazine in yellow to prompt the reader that they are buying the most up to date edition. Lastly the magazine also advertises the fact they have a website. This is posted just underneath the masthead.

Singular Contents page research Q magazine

Contents Page Research

For this content page of Q magazine, it has one really large image of Adele; it takes up nearly half of the page, it is also a close up shot of Adele’s face, she is giving a gaze into the readers eye. Adele is the main image of the magazine as she seems to be the most important story, also as she’s an iconic figure with a lot of top hit songs. At the bottom of the picture it has a white box that stands out to the eye with the page number offering information that is trying to lure you in to read the page of which Adele is on.

The house style of Q magazine is red and white. The red and white can make the consumer remind them of other top brands. Red and white can link to KFC which is one of the biggest fast food chains in the world. Also, going through house style there is the font. The magazine Q’s font, is only really used in Q magazine, therefore if someone is an avid reader of the magazine and notices the font somewhere it might link back to the remembrance of the magazine.

Q also has a review section of their magazine in their contents page. It’s as if Q has its own opinion and its creating a persona. The review on this contents page of the Q magazine is the second thing you notice within the contents page. The Q review has a strapline saying ‘The world’s biggest and best music guide’ instantaneously indicating they are the go to magazine for reviews. The review tab at the bottom has numbers linking to the end of the magazine with many different reviews going from page 124 to page 170.

The content down the side has three sub-sections on this specific magazine. Starting with features, showing things in the magazine that can change up every week. Each heading has a small subheading allowing you to find out a bit more of what is on those pages. Next there is the ‘Women in music’ which I believe is a special section for this edition as it is highlighted to stand out. Lastly there is the ‘Every month’ tab which has content which re-occurs from every month’s magazine, this includes crosswords, fan mail and top 50s.

The target audience is people who really  enjoy music that are in their twenties, I believe that the magazine itself actually attracts the target audience by showing off an iconic figure such as Adele who is on the contents page on this specific edition of Q magazine. As this edition is mainly centred on women in music, this can indicate that the main target audience of this edition is slightly leaning over to the women’s side.

The purpose of the contents page is to inform you of where everything is and show a bit of information within that. This magazine is really effective at putting the contents page across; it is clean and simple with the contents on the side with a split where the images are on the right taking up most of the page. Anyone who looks at this page won’t get lost of where they are looking.