Evaluation of School Magazines

From the school magazines I looked at I saw a lot of things I would like to do and a lot of things that I want to remember to avoid the first magazine I looked at was a student and sixth form magazine. It was good as they were very consistent in their colour scheme, fonts and overall design. The fonts related to the purpose of the magazine as it was in the style of a college/ highschool as well this the font is often used in mainstream pop culture currently making the magazine relevant. The colours were based around the theme of the issue this week being food and so the colour scheme is laid out to look like ketchup and mustard. They also use black as it contrasts against the light coloured cover image. The idea behind the colouring although is related to food does not encourage healthy eating and I need to apply that to my work so that it gives a positive image. The font and design are over the cover image and are made to look like they have been drawn over similar to a school book relating with audience and making the magazine seem relatable to their audience. They have used different font sizes in order to highlight the main article and the smaller articles and they have a magazine logo which is clean and neat which is opaque giving it a very professional look. I want to use this in my magazine highlighting my double page spread article by putting it in larger writing as well as having a logo as part of the magazine name.

The next magazine I looked at was for a school and had a lot less on it there was a main cover image with 3 images above the name of the magazine which is different to what most magazines have, but it looks professional. they have put the font in green opaque text boxes so as to show the picture through the text box whilst making it look neat. However there aren't many text boxes which doesn't help show what is inside and although the images show show some of the different features of the article its not very descriptive, I want to have subheadings to show what is inside.

The final magazine I looked at was another student magazine and while this did have subheadings it had too many and made the magazine seemed crowded, this wasn't helped by the advertisement that had been put on the front page taking up a lot of space. The image was unclear as to its purpose and had been put in front of the magazine name and whilst that looked professional it made the title hard to read. The font also wasn't appropriate it was too formal for a student magazine I want to make sure my font, design and images all relate to the magazines genre and ethos. It did have a consistent colour scheme but the white colour they had had chosen blended in with the background.