Introduction For Preliminary Task

The aim of the preliminary task is to produce a school magazine that is aimed successfully at the target audience. During this task I am required to produce a magazine from scratch aimed at sixth formers featuring a mid shot of a person. I am required to capture all images manually and use ‘Photoshop’ as my editing software.

My ideas for my magazine are as followed:

·         My main cover story will be about the new library located in the recently built building, therefore the main imagine will be of a student taking out a book located inside the library.

·         My name and master head for my magazine will be called “Heston Times”, which i thought was an appropriate and appealing name. It will be created on ‘Dafont’ and will be bold and blue to make it visible and attractive to the audience.

·         The background will be the entire picture, as it will be blown up to fit the page, this is to give the magazine more of an effect and to get the message of the new library across more effectively.

·         The main headline will be “new library opened” which will be in black, and also a quote from another student to make the magazine more interactive, which will be written in a eye catching blue.

My magazine will be aimed at the target audience o 6^th formers as it will be easier to produce as it is directed at my age group so I have the knowledge of what will be successful to include within the magazine. The purpose of my magazine is to inform the readers about the changes within in Heston Community School; this is why I have decided to issue my magazine every month, as it will keep my readers updated with all the new changes. It will be more beneficial to have the magazine issued every month rather than every week, as it would be pointless to include irrelevant stories rather than big issues and problems. To make my magazine a success i will take on board inputs from other students as it will give me more ideas on how to improve my magazine. The way in which i can attract and appeal to my target audience is through the use of colours, my colours will be bright bold and visible, with red blue and yellow writing. Another way to attract my audience is through the choice of images, the image i have chosen is of a student looking at a book in the library, which demonstrates my experimentation of different elements on Photoshop to see what they convey, for example cropping an image, adding more layers or changing colours. The reason I think students will read my magazine as it is about their own school and the benefits the changes has on them.