This is my fourth draft of my front cover. Like the rest of the drafts the name, place and colour of my front cover are the same, this is the running theme of my magazine. The image is placed on one half of the front cover and the cover lines on the other half. The image takes up exactly half of the cover and it is the image of a group of people playing football on a field. I chose this image as it is fun and an action shot; so instantly that makes the reader feel drawn to the cover and makes them want to read on. The cover lines are placed over the image so the reader can see them easily and so they can encourage the reader to read the rest of the magazine. The barcode an date have been placed underneath the image of the people playing sport.

This is my third draft of my front page. Again the name, place and colour is the same as my other two drafts as the title is my running theme. The image is on the left of the front cover and under the titile. The image is a girl stood in front of a board with maths work on it smiling. This image was chosen because again it is a fun image, and also because there is a student on it; it encourages the reader to read the magazine. The cover lines have been placed on the right of the front cover so they can be seen easily by the reader, also they draw your attention to the front cover. The barcode is under the cover lines so it can be seen easily by the reader and again they can be referred back to quickly.

This is my second rough draft of my front cover. For this draft my name and the position of the name stayed the same, also the colour of my name stayed the same. The image is again taking up most of the front cover, but the image has changed. I chose on this draft to have an image of a group of students sitting round a desk, laughing whilst working as it relates to the type of magazine it is, and the target audience. The image is a happy one and it draws your attention towards the front cover. The cover lines have been placed under the image so the focus is on the photo. Again the stories are relevant to waht students are thinking so that draws them in and makes them appropriate for the target audience. The barcode and date have been placed next to the cover lines.

This is my first rough draft of my front cover, and this is the one I chose to use for my magazine front cover as it is a more conventional magazine layout. I chose to have the image taking up most of the front cover, as the picture is one of the main features of a magazine front cover, and it shows the reader what the magazine is about and who the target audience are. I decided to have an image of a student on the front cover holding a folder as it is appropriate for my target audience. My target audience of students are able to relate to the student on the front cover, and are able to understand students lives; so the image is suitable. The name of my magazine is at the top as it draws your eye in straight away and it is the first thing the reader sees. The name is in electric blue as it is very eye catching, it is also bright, vibrant and fun which is reflected in my target audience. My magazine name 'EXCLAMATION' was chosen because it is quite unusual and no other magazine is called that. The cover lines were placed over the image as they are also one of the main factors of a magazine cover; and they are what encourages the reader to but the magazine. The stories I chose were all relevant to what is going on in a students life so they are appropriate to the target audience. The barcode and date are placed under the image so the readers can refer back to the front cover if they need to.

This is my mock up front cover. The title will be Exclamation! and I have put it at the top as it draws your attention. The title will be in electric blue as it is very bright and vibrant which is what I am aiming for in my target audience. The image will be under the selling line and will be a picture of a girl holding a book and looking down at it. This is relevant to the type of magazine it is and the target audience. The cover lines will be on the right underneath the title and the barcode and date will be underneath it.

This is my contents page. I chose the colour purple for the title because it stands out and is quite bold. I included pictures to make the page more attractive, and each image has pupils in to so it is suitable for my target audience of students.

Camera Shots:
These images are examples of Medium close up shots, which I will be doing for the front cover of my magazine. These images have given me ideas about what to do for my shot.

Having a girl holding a piece of work above her head.

A girl stood with her thumbs up with a whiteboard behind her.
People playing sport together, close up on players laughing together.

A girl looking towards camera holding a book.

In Style magazine is aimed at women from around the age of 25-54 and the stories on the front cover relate to the lives of the target audience. The stories are appropriate for the type of magazine aswell as Instyle offers advice on fashion, Health and Beauty, so the stories have to be relevant to the theme of the magazine. 'Easy, sexy make-up trends' and 'Best online shopping secrets' are appropriate for the type of magazine as that is what the audience wants to read about. Stories about college and educational stories would not be appropriate for this magazine.

The stories on the front cover of Take a Break magazine relates to the target audience. Take a Break is aimed at women from the age of 20-50. The stories on the front are real life, this draws in readers because people like to know what is going on behind closed doors. These stories are also chosen to go on the front because they are the most interesting and eye catching and make you want to read the rest of the story. These stories are also appropriate for the type of magazine it is. It wouldn't work to have a story about School life or science.

Stories:

These college magazines are aimed at A-level students and you can see that from the stories they have on the front cover. On the Chemistry review each story is related to the students lives who are studying Chemistry. On the Chemistry review the stories on the front cover are 'How chemistry works Boyle's law', 'The future for Polymers' and 'Natural products in medicinal drugs'. The stories are all specifically chosen to appeal to the target audience and will have been chosen very carefully to make sure it is suitable for the magazine. On the front cover of The English review the stories are 'Love through the ages in Poetry', Understanding genre: satire, The Handmaids Tale, Great Expectations, The white Devil, Shakespeare, Phillip Larkin and more. These all relate to students who are stuying A level English so therefore thay are appropriate stories, you could not have a story on it advertising the new fashion trends as it wouldn't be suitabl for what the magazine is aiming to advertise. Stories are one of the most important things on the front cover of a magazine as they are one of the aspects that make the reader but the magazine. Magazine editors put the stories which are the most interesting and eye catching on the front cover as it draws the readers in. They also put the stories which are most related to the paticular issue of the magazine on the front cover. Each magzine chooses stories specifically which are relevant to the issue of the magazine and what are suitable for the target audience.

Target Audience:
Target audience is a primary group of people that a magazine or an advertising campaign is aimed at appealing to. An audience can be people of a cretain group i.e. gender, age. Discovering the appropriate target markets to market a product or service is onet of the most important stages involved with market research. Without knowing the target audience, a company's advertising can become very dificult and expensive. Each magazine has it's own specific target audience which is easy to identify just by looking at how the front cover has been designed. Primary magzine is a magazine based on primary school teachers. The text, colour, images, stories have all been chosen to relate to primary school teachers. The stories on the front cover are always put at the top of the magazine in quite demure, plain text and are usually in red. The stories all relate to the lives of teachers. 'What the news schools minister has to say'. The image on the front is that of a teacher, which is appropriate to the target audience as it wouldn't be suitable if it was an image of new fashion trends. The title is always above the image and is in quite bold text. It has all been designed to appeal to teachers. Vogue is a magazine that covers style and upmarket fashion so therefore is aimed at females from the age of 25-54 who love fashion. Everything on the front cover has been chosen to appeal to that target audience. The image on the front cover can either be a model chosen specifically as women may want to be like the model so therefore buy the magazine, or there is a celebrity on the front cover whaich is suitable for the target audience because they want to find out what goes on in the private lives of celdebrities. The sub headings appeal to the target audience because they are all about fashion, and the text is put in bold, bright colours to draw your attention. Everything on a magazines front cover has been specifically chosen to appeal to their target audience.

Colour:
Colour on magazine front covers help attract readers and also identify the specific audience. If your trying to attract young people you would use very bright, vibrant colours that draws your eyes straight to it, however if your trying to attract the attention of older people you wouldn't use bright colours e.g neon pink you would use for example subtle greens to attract the specific readers. Magzines aimed at young people always have text in bold colours as that is what shows the audience if it is going to be an interesting fun issue or an issue that does not interest them. College magazines usually have quite demure colours as it is suitable for their target audience, but if it was a college magazine aimed at students if would have bright colours to attract their attention as that is one of the things that attracts students to a paticular magazine.

Text:

Text in magazines are vital to attracting the readers and also helps you identify the paticular target audience. You can tell if the magazine is aiming at young people as they would use quite bold and modern fonts, whereas if they was attracting older audiences they would use more demure, plain fonts. The text also helps identify the theme of the magazine, as most magazines use the same font on the front cover of each of their issues. Secondary magazine use the same font for their title and their stories on each issue, this helps the readers identify the magazine and also it is suitable for the target audience. Secondary magazine is aimed at teachers and the text is quite plain and not very eye catching, which is quite stereotypical of teachers. However Elle magazine have their title in big bold letters at the top of the page. Also there are subheadings on the front cover what are put in bold text and also in bright colours. This is suitable for their target audience as the magzine is aimed at females starting from around the age of twenty to about fortyfive. The font of the text also draws the reader in as on magazine front covers they put the most interesting stories in big, bold fonts to attract peoples attention and to expand their target audience. Text is a vital part of a magazine as it gets people to buy the magazines.

Dates and issue numbers:
Dates and issue numbers are there to assist the reader. They are there so you can see what date it is and what issue it is, but they are also there if you need to look back at a past issue. If one of the readers need to refer back to a past issue as it has something of relevance in then they can just look back through the issue numbers and find it. They are also there because some magazines ask readers to write in and say what they think of the past issue so when they put the opinions in to the magazine the readers can understand what they are talking about, also it helps the magazine editors to improve the future issues.

Prices of magazines:
Prices are there for one very obvious reason: to tell you how much the magazine is, but it can also tell the reader what the quality of the magazine is. Vogue and Elle magazine are examples of quite expensive magazines, with Vogue priced at £3.90 and Elle at £3.60. This represents the quality and how much information is in the magazine for the reader. Vogue and Elle provide the reader with interviews with celebrities, fashion and beauty advice and stories so therefore it is quite expensive. Whereas if you compare that to Secondary magazine which is free you can see that Vogue or Elle is a better quality magazine. Secondary magazine is for teachers and only has stories related to its target audience so therefore is not one of the most popular magazines. Price is a very important part of a magazine as it enables the reader to understand the quality of the magazine.

Sub-headings:
Sub headings are a vital part of attracting the readers. Sub headings structure the context of your page. The sub headings enable your readers to find detailed information, they also give the reader an idea of how deeply the topic is covered. Sub headings provide detailed information about the main entry and they represent distinct aspects of the topic. Each heading should accurately tell readers what each section covers. Using different font sizes and bolding your text helps your readers to find the information quickly. Some writing, especially scientific reports it's helpful to number your sections.

The target audience for the Secondary magazine and the Elle magazine are easy to identify from the way the front cover has been designed. The secondary magazine is aimed at teachers working in secondary schools, whereas Elle magazine is aimed at women who are from the age of 20-45 and who are interested in fashion. The text on the secondary magazine is quite plain and is always in the same colour red which is suitable for the target audience. The image on Secondary magazine reflects the target audience as it is a picture of two pupils at a secondary school. The image of the two pupils on the front cover refers to what the issue is going to be about, the stories are always relevant to teachers lives which again makes it suitable for the audience. The colour of the secondary magazine is never in bright eye catching colours because it has a running theme of a green title and the stories always printed in red. The text is in this colour because the audience associate the magazine with these colours. However the text on Elle mgazine is always in bright colours to attract their target audience. The title for Elle is always placed at the top and it changes colour each issue to reflect the outfit on the front cover. The colour is always in really vibrant, feminie covers to attract their female audience. They always have stories around the image on the front cover what relate to their audience. Some of the stories are in bold and these are the stories which are most likely to attract the readers, the issue is also put in bright colurs to tell the reader what the magazine is about. The image on the front cover always has a celebrity on it as they know the readers want to know what is going on in the personal lives of celebrities. The image always takes up most of the front cover, this draws your attention in and with it being a celebrity on the front cover it makes you want to but the magazine. The front cover of each magazine is specifically designed with the target audience in mind.

Secondary magazine is aimed at teachers and you can tell that from the way the front cover has been designed. The title at the top is in clear letters but in quite a dark green, this is suitable for the target audience because you wouldn't want it in neon pink. The title for the secondary magazine seems to always be in green and is always placed at the top of the page, this could be because with it being at the top it draws you in more than if it was at the bottom. Also it is placed above image which is the most attractive bit of the front cover. The image is always placed in the middle of the cover to attract the audience. The image can either just take up the middle of the cover or it can take about 75% of the rest of the cover up. The magazine has a running theme of text and colour. The colour and text for the title is the same on each issue, also the stories at the top of the page are in red or pink and always in the same text. The stories are always placed at the top of the magazine so they are seen straightaway, they are put in red or pink because that is very striking against a plain white background. The text is always in quite a plain easy to read text which fits in with the target audience. The target audience is aimed at tecahers working in secondary schools but it has stories in their what can refer to teachers working at a primary school or college. To go with one of the stories they always put a little image next to it, this is to help the readers understand what the story is about. The date and issue number are always placed in the bottom right, they are put on the front cover to assist the reader in case they need to refer back to another issue. At the bottom left of the front cover in quite small text it says department for children, schools and families. This could be placed their as a sponsor or just to show the reader who the magazine is associated with.

Contents page is a veryimportant part of a magazine. The page is there to direct the readers to were they would like to go in the mag. They also have pictures to attract their audience and to help the readers. The stories have the key words in bold colours to attract the reader and to make them want to read the other stories. The stories that are on the front cover and what are the most eye catching are usually at the top of the contents page, and have pictures to go with them. There are usually images on the contents page to keep the reader interested and to attract you to the stories inside the magazine. In some magazines they have images of new fashions and new beauty products, whereas in educational magazines they have images of schools and pupils. This relates back to the target audience. Each magazine has its own specific target audience. Cosmo and Marie Claire are specifically designed for women around the ages of 20-45. College magazines are usually aimed at the students at the college and other young people, some college magazines can be aimed at teachers aswell as students. Some magazines also have a good colour scheme on their contents page, this is designed for their audience. Cosmo have a bright, vibrant colour scheme and lots of images of fashion and sometimes small images of male celebrities, this attracts their female audience. Magazines aimed for school teachers or pupils are quite demure and don't have quite a bright colour scheme, also the images on the contents page are usually images of pupils or schools or teachers. On some contents pages there is also an editors letter, this is there so the editor can connect with the readers and so the readers can find out why the editor chose the certain issue. It is also there so the editor can recieve feedback from the readers.

Marie Claire is a women's monthly magazine distributed internationally. The text on the magazine is always the same on each issue but just a different colour to go with the colou scheme og that issue. The title is at the top to attract the readers and it is in a bright colour. There is sub-headings on the front cover with parts of the text in colour. This gets the readers attention and makes them want to read on and find about the story. The contents page becomes useful then because when the readers search for the story they can see the pictures on the page, which will in turn make them want to read the rest of the magazine. The image takes up the whole magazine to attract the raeder, it also has a different celebrity on the front cover of each issue, as readers want to find out about celebrity lives and see what goes on behind closed doors. The images is usually a mid-shot a close shot or a long shot. The magazine always has bold text in the middle of the cover to tell the reader what the issue is about that time. The date and the issue number are there to help the reader in case they need to refer to a past magazine. atahe priceis always with the barcode on the magazine.

Marie Claire is a women's monthly magazine distributed internationally. The magazine was first published in 1937. The magazine provides the audience with health, fashion and beauty.

Cosmopolitan magazine is an international magazine for women. It was published in 1886 as a family magazine and then later changed into a womens magazine in the 1960's. The magazine features advice for women, problem pages, ral life stories and fashion.