Main Magazine Publishers

Bauer Media
Bauer Media produces many popular magazines such as:

• Closer
• FHM
• Grazia
• Heat
• KERRANG!
• Q
• Take a Break

Bauer Media is quite a large company that is very diverse. It publishes big rock music magazines to gossip/real life magazines like 'Closer' and 'Take a Break'.
 They are very a successful company with many big magazines to their name.

National Magazine Company
National Magazine Company publishes magazines like:

• Elle
• Cosmopolitan
• Reveal
• Company
• Good Housekeeping
• Real People
• Inside Soap

National Magazine Company sells popular magazines that are higly priced and a lot of them are fashion magazines like, 'Elle' and 'Cosmoplitan'. However they do have some smaller magazines that would get brought on a regular basis like 'Inside Soap'.

Conde Nast
Conde Nast produces magazines such as:

• Vanity Fair
• Vogue
• Glamour
• GQ
• Brides
• WIRED
• Easy Living

These magazine are mostly high fashion magazines that mostly come out on a monthly basis and are highly priced. These are all very famous magazines that are sold worldwide.

BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide produces magazines like:

• Radio Times
• Easy Cook
• CBeebibes
• Lonely Planet
• Good Food

These magazines all seem to be quite specific genres, such as cooking, or travelling. they also all seem to be family magazines (either aimed at older people, or young children)

Pictures Picked!

I have chosen the pictures that I am going to use for my preliminary task of creating a school newspaper cover and contents page. I have used Prezi to present these pictures:


I have chosen to use some of these pictures because they all either show, work that students have done, musical instruments that we have in school (which will link to the cover story about arts evening) or students working.

Front Cover
I am going to use the picture of 'Ella playing the drums' on the front page because it links to the story on the cover.When editing the picture using Photoshop, I will cut out everything behind her (on the right side) and everything in front of the drum kit (on the left side). I will keep the background of the rest of the picture because it shows work on notice boards that students have done and it also shows more instruments.

I am going to use the picture of 'Brendon' on the front cover as it is one of the requirements to show a student in mid-shot. This is a good picture to use because it shows a sixth form students working with lower school students in the background. When editing, I will not crop any other picture out, because it does show different years however as the picture is quite dark, I will change edit it to be lighter and easier to see.

Also on the front cover I will use the picture of 'A students artwork' because it links to the cover story and I also think it is an interesting piece of artwork that will appeal to students of all ages. I will edit all of the background out so it is just the black background of the picture.



In the contents page, I am going to use maybe two or three more pictures that will link to the stories/pages mentioned on the contents page.
Contents Page
The first picture I will use in the contents page is a picture of two students working together, called 'Ella and Brendon'. It will have the page number that links to the article, which will be about sixth form

The next picture I will include will be pictures that link with the article about the year 11's recent art trip to the zoo. The picture I will use for this is 'Penguins'. When editing I will cut out the top of the picture.

The third picture I will use in the contents page is 'Prom' as it corresponds with the article about last year's prom/recruiting current year 11s to join the prom committee. I will not change this picture.

Stories

So, I have finally decided on the basis of my magazine!

My school magazine will be based around the idea of community in school. It will be all about celebrating the achievements of the students and trying to get students involved in school life as much as possible. I have decided that the main article in the school newspaper will be about arts evening, showcasing the talents of the students (from all years, including sixth form). The other articles in the newspaper will be about extra-curricular activities that students can get involved in, there will also be an article about prom last year, and ask for students to join the new prom committee. There will also be articles about exam results, and a 'Student's Comedy Corner' where students can have a page to include any little stories, or jokes or maybe drawing that they want in the newspaper. There will also be an article about year 11's recent art trip to the zoo.

School Magazine Layout

This is my first ROUGH plan for my preliminary task. I have tried to add as much detail as I can, so when I come to make it it will be easier. I have included what informations will be included in the articles, I have specified what pictures will go where and I have chosen the layout for my magazine too.

My School Magazine Layout

 

In class today we have been working on a draft for our school magazine layout. This is the basic layout for mine. I have chosen to have the masthead in capitals and to be in a blue font. this is so that it is recognisable as the masthead and stays within the school colours of blue and green. I have chosen to put the main article on the front of the magazine (which will carry on inside), so that it is clear that it is still a school magazine and it links in with the pictures on the front of the magazine.

 

The next thing i will do to improve this draft is to add a background colours and add the text that will be in the article. I will also add the pictures, which will be of some artwork by students, some students in a music class and a medium close up of a student (which will be linked to a drama lesson).

 



Photos

Based on the articles that will be included in the school newspaper, I have decided to take pictures of student artwork, and from drama classes. I will also have some pictures of extra-curricular activities going on around school, like sports clubs, art clubs, maths clubs. I will also include some pictures of last year's prom, mainly inside the venue, and maybe a couple of little drawings done by some students.