Mood Board for music magazine

This is my mood board for the Pop Punk music magazine I am going to make. In the mood board I included the possible fonts I will use for my magazine title, already existing music magazines and aspects of my reader profile. I included what my audience may wear, what TV shows that watch, what bands they listen to and what websites and apps they may use.

Evaluation of my final outcome

The first thing I did in the process of making my school magazine was analyse an already existing school magazine. This was so that I could see what features were presented in a school magazine. I also used it as a guide to what my magazine could look like. The school magazine included:
- A masthead
- Bold headlines
- Pictures that accompanied articles
- A link to the school website
- Both the date and issue number
- School ‘badges’

After analysing a school magazine, I made a brief design of how the cover of the magazine would look, showing where I would place articles, images and headlines. I did this so that when it came to designing the final product, I would have an idea of what my magazine would look like.

I then created a survey. This was so that I could identify my target audience and see the sort of features they wanted to see my magazine. The questions included:
- Are you male or female?
- Which year are you in at school?
- Which type of magazine do you normally read?
- What do you want to see in the magazine?
- Which size is suitable for a headline?
- Which format is best for a headline?
- What font do you prefer for articles?
- Which layout would be best for the magazine?
- What colour scheme would you like to see in the magazine?

I then closed the survey and collected the results. I collected the results so I could see who my target audience was and what they wanted to see in the magazine and also how they wanted the magazine to look. This therefore meant that my magazine would reflect the audience’s styles and opinions.

The survey results showed that my target audience wanted images in the magazine. So I went around the school and took multiple pictures that would relate to the articles that would appear on both the cover and contents pages of my magazine.

Finally, I created the cover and contents page of my school magazine. I made them both in Microsoft Word. I experimented with the layout and finally decided on where the articles, images and headlines would be and how they would compliment each other. My cover page and contents page fully reflect the results of my survey, showing that I modelled my magazine to the audiences needs.

Final Magazine Outcome

This is my final outcome for my school magazine. All aspects of the design are due to the results of the survey including the colour scheme, font and layout. Showing that I have looked at and applied the results of the survey to my own magazine.

Reviews of the images I am both using and not using in my school magazine

Newsletter image reviews from LouLilburn

My school magazine survey results

These are the results of my 'AS Media Magazine Survey'.
These results will determine what my own school magazine will look like and what type of information will be in it. I also made the survey to find out the target audience and what they want to see in the magazine.
The questions were based on finding out, target audience, and design and formatting preferences. 

Here are the results:

My School Magazine Survey

My school magazine survey to see what students look for in a school magazine. The results of this survey will determine what my magazine will look like and what will feature in it.

School newsletter survey

The Draft for the Cover of my School Magazine

This is the original draft for my school magazine. This is the initial design however this may change due to my survey results, as I will have to mold the magazine to what the public thinks the magazine should look like. 

  The original draft includes a 'masthead', two headlines, two images (relative to article), two pieces of article text and one link to the schools website.

Analysis of an already existing published school newsletter

This is an analysis of the school newsletter 'Plumline'. I've highlighted the aspects that make the newsletter successful and unsuccessful. I also analysed this so that I could apply aspects that are successful to my own newsletter.