Questionnaire results
I asked 10 people to fill out questionnaires that had 10 questions about school news papers and what they thought about them. The first question asked was would reading a school magazine be useful and helpful, 90% of the people said yes and 10% disagreed and said no. Therefore i would think that it was useful as more people agreed rather than disagreed.
The second question on the questionnaire was 'what would you expect to read in a school magazine?' Mostly people answered upcoming events, about daily life in school and what is happening in school with there achievements etc. So therefore in my school magazine i would include all these things as that is what most post people said they wanted to see.
80% of people said that in the school magazine they would like to see the school theme with black, white red and silver as then it will go with the school. The rest of the people said pink would be good to use however i would rather use the school theme as then everything would go and it would look classy. However there was also another question asking if people would like there to be a theme and also 80% said there would like to be which is the school one.
Half of the people i asked answered that they would like the magazine to come out weekly and the other 50% said they would want it to come out monthly. Personally i would prefer it to be monthly as not many stuff happens in a week for the magazine to come out every week.
I asked would you prefer formal or slang in the paper and 4 people answered both, 2 people answered slang and the other 4 people answered formal. Therefore i would use both as people want both students and teachers to write it, the students can write in slang and teachers in formal the get a mixture.
Every person said that they would expect it to be funny and also for it to include pictures of all the students with the writing. It would be more enjoyable to read.
There was a mixture of people that said they would like to see writing about specific students and just general information so it would be better if it included both for everyone.
Friday 20 September 2013
Sample cover
This is my sample magazine cover with Trent Reznor on the cover as the cover star. We had to delete the background of his picture to put him in front of the masthead. This was useful because we got to see how cropping tools work and if they was useful or not. I added his name also in white as his jacket is dark so i thought it would be the best colour to stand out.
Conventions of a magazine
Friday 13 September 2013
Analysis of magazine cover
The word ‘Billboard’ is covered because Justin Bieber is more important than anything on the cover, he's also is in the center of the magazine showing he is the main focus.They have used a good picture of Justin Bieber as he is looking good to attract the fans, it makes it seem like he is connecting with them as the camera technique used is direct address.
He also is covering his name because most people know who he is as he is a world wide pop star and no one would really need a reminder because Billboard magazines only focus on top artists that are in the charts now and not people who they wouldn't know 20 years ago. They audience would prefer to look at his face also so making his picture bigger makes them more attracted to it.
The whole colour scheme of the magazine is good. It uses the same colours all over with about 3 different ones. This makes the magazine not look trashy and simple to read. Its based on a dark blue background so the colours in front have to stand out making it look more bold.
All of the other famous on the ftront cover are in small this shows us how they are not that important in the magazine. It makes you feel like it is mostly going to be about Justin Bieber and the others are featuring in it.
Cropping skills
This was an exercise i did in my media class which we had to crop a photo on publisher and add 'STACS' to the to of the photo.
It helps you understand how to use magazines more and how to crop to the size that you want, it mostly helps with your front cover.
It helps you understand how to use magazines more and how to crop to the size that you want, it mostly helps with your front cover.
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