School Magazine Analysis

school magazine url: http://www.gshs.org.uk/school-newsletters/evolve

This magazine is made for the school George Stephenson High School.

The magazine has a very simple and basic layout to it. The title is 'The Rocket'. It is bold white text on a blue background. This isn't a very imaginative title but it at least shows you what the school is and you know that it is going to be based on only stories that are related to the school.

It is has a fairly simple layout to it, with all the navigational items at the top so it is easy for you to find what you want to look at, although this is also very simple and bland. The more detailed navigational bar down the left hand side is more confusing as it has different icons for certain things and it doesnt really show you what theyre about. This one is also bland and confusing.

The actual magazine itself has a simple layout of columns like that of a newspaper. Like a newspaper it also uses white on black which makes it easy to read and it stands out better than it would with any other colours.

Its purpose seems to be mainly to act as a newsletter for updating parents rather than information for the students. Although it does seem to basically just seem to be an outline of what is currently happening and what has happened within in the school so I guess readership would be both parents and students.

Thursday 5th February

In todays lesson we used the skills that we learnt from our photoshop tutorial with Mark last week to edit the pictures that we took of nature last week and made it into the mock up of our nature magazine front cover. After editing the image I used the actual image as my background of the front cover and then put my title and other text on top. I found photoshop fairly difficult to use today, alot of things to remember from last week and my notes weren't the best. I realised from this lesson that i am going to need some more practise on photoshop before we do our mock up of our school magazine front cover.

Friday 30th January

In this lesson we had to take pictures of nature for a magazine titled 'nature'. We worked in groups of two or three and we had to go out of the school to get pictures. Me and Beckie decided to go to netteswell pond across the road from school as it has alot of wildlife such as ducks. We took 4 pictures (two each), which after became three as one of the ones I took wasn't very good. Then we went back to the classroom and uploaded them onto the schools shared area folder into our own new folder to be used at a later date to edit. In this lesson I learnt the importance of using time properly as we had get to get a fair amount done in a short space of time.

Thursday 29th January

For the first half of the lesson we had a tutorial on how to use photoshop from mark. He showed us all the useful techniquies to use on editing a picture. This part of the lesson made me realise how a good picture edit takes alot of work and that it is key to constantly save your work. For the second half of the lesson we had to annatate two different university magazines. This part of the lesson showed how the front page is very important in terms of setting up an idea of what the magazine is about.