School Magazine

For my media coursework I have to design a front page and contents page for a short magazine which is going to be based on Kelsey Park Sports College. The target audience of this magazine will be the students of the school who would be 11-18 and its purpose will be to inform them of anything that happens within the school.
Before we started this section of the work we looked at various magazines such as heat which helped us to learn how to identify a magazines target audience and purpose by looking at the use of colour, photos and the whole layout of the magazine. After we had analysed some magazines it was time to start experimenting with a program called Adobe Indesign CS3, we learned how to create different text types, colours and shapes using a wide range of tools.

Now I have a basic understanding of how to use Adobe Indesign CS3, I have a few ideas about the design of the front cover. I could possibly black and yellow as the main colours because these colours are in the schools logo and are also the schools tie colours. I still haven't decided how to design the page and how it will be laid out.
However, we can also do some hand drawings and scan them in to use on our magazine designs, which would be helpful if we can't work out how to use a tool in the program properly or if we aren't happy with how it turns out, so drawing our designing and scanning it in works as a helpful alternative.

Furthermore, we took some photos in an earlier stage of our work which gave us an understanding of how magazines used their photos to attract the audience and what the whole magazine is based on. Taking our own photos and using them on our school magazine would also make it better and more realistic.