Homework- school magazine

For this piece of homework we needed to look at an online version of a school magazine. I decided to look at an issue of Burnt Mill News found at:
http://www.burntmill.essex.sch.uk/BM_School_News/Volume_4_issue_8.pdf


Firstly when looking at this it had a clear name and logo so it is easy recognisable, i also viewed other burnt mill news magazines and this is had a clear house style throughout them all. It is just a plain white background with the same font writing so it is easily readable, and all had the name and logo's in the same positions. The logo's on the magazine here are both the burnt mill school logo and a perfoming arts logo to show that it has a performing arts satus as it is a perfoming arts school.
This magazine is aimed at all teachers, students and parents. I can tell this because it has a lot of information about the school itself and has an email address so the school is easy to contact straight away. There is also part of the magazine that tells the reader about 'whats coming up in the half term' This is mostly aimed at the parents because they then know what their child is doing at school. I would say that this is used as a way of communication between the readers and the school.
Finally I think that this magazine does what it is aimed to do, which is to give the reader information about the school and its students. It is clear and easy to understand so that people of different age groups will be able to know everything going on. And as it is free and is available to be read online this magazine will have a lot of readers and therefore its circulation numbers will be high too.

22nd January

Todays lesson was about pitching our idea about a new school magazine which we was talking about last lesson.

I learnt how much it actually costs to make the magazine from scratch and which form of magazine will be best. I also learnt how important it is to do primary research to find out what are the customer/ target market preferences. This will then help sell the magazine as it will be aimed at the target audience well.
The things me and my group could have done better was, to talk about research and maybe show a mock up of the front cover to give a visual product to the audience.

20th January

In the lesson today we was given our first pleminary task. Which was to think about creating a front cover for a new school magazine. Also thinking about what should be included in it, financing the magazine, advertising, iconography, images and target audience most importantly.

We learnt that disipline and creativity is needed for this task and we need to 'K.I.S.S'--> keep it simple.