When looking at different types of school magazines, there was a variety of common factors used in them. This involved things like putting the title in the top left of the magazine cover, or having the images of a slight tilt on the front cover. Other things that you can find on a front cover are the language used. In most cases the language used is informal and chatty; appealing to the target audience of teenagers aged 13-18.
Sometimes, the titles of certain articles are questions which are usually answered by reading the article so it encourages the target audience to read them to understand the question itself. Appling the rule of thirds to the front cover, it shows that the text is kept to the vertical left thirds. If you don’t include the images, the cover only consists of 3 colours, which are bright, and eye catching, drawing people even from a first glance.
Moving onto the contents page, this is where a lot of your images can be placed so you can sometimes have a clearer idea of what the article itself is about. But the images are not big, kept on a slant so that the images don’t look all the same and keep it looking ‘trendy’. All the images are relevant to each article and kept a constant theme of happy smiley children.
The language used fits in with the way it was constructed. The contents page has all of the articles and their location to one half, using up two of the vertical thirds. They use description and a summary of articles to help establish what people are reading and drawing the reader in more. They also have a letter from the editor on the other side of the page which explains a bit of the background story to the magazine construction itself.
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