This is my completed contents page from my school magazine
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Proposal Form
The brief of this task is to aim a school magazine at 6th formers. I have chosen to aim my product at 6th formers because it would be easier to aim a product at people my own age and because I am in 6th form myself, I have a good understanding of what could be expected and what sort of things should me included.
From my brief it is obvious that my target audience is 6th formers, roughly people aged between 16-18. To find out more about this target audience, in class we did a task that involved having to question people in you class. This helped me with ideas and planning because this task helped me to know what is the average 6th former in our school.
For the working Title I had quite a few ideas. In the end I came up with 7 names that I thought could be included. The first one was HELP! Basically because the bold heading is asking a question and for anyone who had maybe just started 6ht form, this would be very appealing but for people who haven’t might not necessarily think they need help through out 6th form. The second name was ‘’Beyond Studying’’. This could be a good masthead because the title is giving the impression of something else to do with 6th form but that is not actually related to learning and education. The next four ideas I had where just words linked to school and how you can say them differently to make them more impressive and make the magazine seem more appealing, Cultivation (meaning Education), Erudition (meaning learning), Avail (meaning help) and Scholar (meaning student). My last idea was ASTAR. This is my personal favourite because it can apply to anyone in 6th form as for everyone wants to do their best and aim as high as they can as like, we all want that ‘’A*’’.
The general idea behind this magazine is that so you can get updated information about your school, events and opportunities (not just inside of school). The magazine should be quite informal and have a friendly approach to it as if the magazine has been made by students for the students. Not only should it just update information about anything going on in or outside of school. It should be a way of giving advice to 6th form students. This is because the main idea of 6th form is to get A levels and go on to do something else. But sometimes there is a majority of people who don’t know and this magazine could be a way of helping students come to realise what they want to do.
The lifestyle this magazine is promoting is your average teenage, 16 to 18 year old life style. Its not upper class or lower class but a all rounder magazine, can have a different variety of viewers. This magazine isn’t really properly promoting what lifestyle to live by but it is just giving you basic, updated information that might apply to you.
I have already planned 2 different covers in which they are both quite different. From these covers I am going to wait until my questionnaires I had made for my target audience are given back to me and from there I can decide on what to include. Things like what should the main front cover image should be? What sort of colours the colour scheme should be and what name is the best. In my questionnaire I have left some very open questions so that I can let my target audience have an opinion and maybe this will help me plan out my front cover.
So far, I haven’t come up with an final idea but the idea so far is that the front cover shot will defiantly be mid length and the actor will be a 6th form student. There is no definite actor but they will either be showing a personality (maybe of what they feel towards 6th form) or doing something that is linked to school e.g. sports, working, art.
The basic content of the magazine is that it will defiantly include a masthead and most likely have a unique selling point e.g. competition so that it has more reason to read it. The colour scheme will either be consisting of three colours or two. There will defiantly be a main image, the use of smaller images on the front cover – im not sure if there will be. I don’t want the cover to have too much writing on the cover just the main issues so that the audience will be more attracted to it.
The language used on the front cover will be informal and persuasive. This is because of who the magazine is aimed at and anything that is too formal will most likely cause the magazine to be unpopular. Words and phrases that might be used could be things like ‘’FIND OUT MORE’’,’’GUESS WHO’’ and ‘’READ TO FIND OUT MORE’’.
This magazine is a definite alternative to other magazines currently on the market because although there is a wide range of magazines aimed at teenagers there aren’t any that are aimed at school and that can actually be issued in school. Not only does it already include there interests and things that matter to them they also get information that could help them round school e.g. changes in school but it can also help them find out what they want to do later in life (offer advice and help). All these qualities makes this magazine unique because there are no magazines on the market that offer all of this.
The brief of this task is to aim a school magazine at 6th formers. I have chosen to aim my product at 6th formers because it would be easier to aim a product at people my own age and because I am in 6th form myself, I have a good understanding of what could be expected and what sort of things should me included.
From my brief it is obvious that my target audience is 6th formers, roughly people aged between 16-18. To find out more about this target audience, in class we did a task that involved having to question people in you class. This helped me with ideas and planning because this task helped me to know what is the average 6th former in our school.
For the working Title I had quite a few ideas. In the end I came up with 7 names that I thought could be included. The first one was HELP! Basically because the bold heading is asking a question and for anyone who had maybe just started 6ht form, this would be very appealing but for people who haven’t might not necessarily think they need help through out 6th form. The second name was ‘’Beyond Studying’’. This could be a good masthead because the title is giving the impression of something else to do with 6th form but that is not actually related to learning and education. The next four ideas I had where just words linked to school and how you can say them differently to make them more impressive and make the magazine seem more appealing, Cultivation (meaning Education), Erudition (meaning learning), Avail (meaning help) and Scholar (meaning student). My last idea was ASTAR. This is my personal favourite because it can apply to anyone in 6th form as for everyone wants to do their best and aim as high as they can as like, we all want that ‘’A*’’.
The general idea behind this magazine is that so you can get updated information about your school, events and opportunities (not just inside of school). The magazine should be quite informal and have a friendly approach to it as if the magazine has been made by students for the students. Not only should it just update information about anything going on in or outside of school. It should be a way of giving advice to 6th form students. This is because the main idea of 6th form is to get A levels and go on to do something else. But sometimes there is a majority of people who don’t know and this magazine could be a way of helping students come to realise what they want to do.
The lifestyle this magazine is promoting is your average teenage, 16 to 18 year old life style. Its not upper class or lower class but a all rounder magazine, can have a different variety of viewers. This magazine isn’t really properly promoting what lifestyle to live by but it is just giving you basic, updated information that might apply to you.
I have already planned 2 different covers in which they are both quite different. From these covers I am going to wait until my questionnaires I had made for my target audience are given back to me and from there I can decide on what to include. Things like what should the main front cover image should be? What sort of colours the colour scheme should be and what name is the best. In my questionnaire I have left some very open questions so that I can let my target audience have an opinion and maybe this will help me plan out my front cover.
So far, I haven’t come up with an final idea but the idea so far is that the front cover shot will defiantly be mid length and the actor will be a 6th form student. There is no definite actor but they will either be showing a personality (maybe of what they feel towards 6th form) or doing something that is linked to school e.g. sports, working, art.
The basic content of the magazine is that it will defiantly include a masthead and most likely have a unique selling point e.g. competition so that it has more reason to read it. The colour scheme will either be consisting of three colours or two. There will defiantly be a main image, the use of smaller images on the front cover – im not sure if there will be. I don’t want the cover to have too much writing on the cover just the main issues so that the audience will be more attracted to it.
The language used on the front cover will be informal and persuasive. This is because of who the magazine is aimed at and anything that is too formal will most likely cause the magazine to be unpopular. Words and phrases that might be used could be things like ‘’FIND OUT MORE’’,’’GUESS WHO’’ and ‘’READ TO FIND OUT MORE’’.
This magazine is a definite alternative to other magazines currently on the market because although there is a wide range of magazines aimed at teenagers there aren’t any that are aimed at school and that can actually be issued in school. Not only does it already include there interests and things that matter to them they also get information that could help them round school e.g. changes in school but it can also help them find out what they want to do later in life (offer advice and help). All these qualities makes this magazine unique because there are no magazines on the market that offer all of this.
Questionnaire results
1) Are you male or female?
Male: 6
Female: 14
2) How old are you?
16: 14
17: 6
3) List three of your hobbies/interests
Singing: 2
Netball: 1
Shopping: 4
Horse Riding: 2
Jogging: 1
Cricket: 1
Drama: 2
Drinking/Partying: 4
Seeing Friends: 10
PC (Video games): 4
Blogging: 1
Music: 5
Table Tennis: 1
Train Spotting: 1
Drawing: 2
Football: 5
Swimming: 2
TV: 2
Tennis: 2
Badminton: 1
Reading: 2
Dancing: 1
Painting: 2
Gym: 1
Chess: 1
4) What are your three favourite colours?
Pink: 10
Orange: 6
Green: 5
Silver: 1
Blue: 13
Black: 3
White: 2
Red: 9
Purple: 6
Yellow: 3
Burgundy: 1
Mauve: 1
5) What do you like most about school?
Socialising: 13
Learning: 2
Drama: 1
English: 1
Going home: 2
Geography: 1
6) If you were to interview someone in school who would it be?
Mr Fishleigh: 2
Mrs Mason: 7
Caretaker: 3
Mr Fishleigh (2): 1
6th Former: 5
Miss Robinson: 1
7) Out of the list below what are you most likely to read in a magazine?
Career Advice: 5
Teacher Gossip: 10
Events in school: 4
8) Who would you prefer to make your school magazine?
Student: 18
Teacher:
9) If a review was to be written what would you read about?
House events: 4
School Trip: 14
Exam Success: 6
10) Out of the names below what would you like your magazine to be called?
HELP!: 3
Scholar: 5
ASTAR: 12
10) If you would like your school magazine to called something else what would you call it?
S.S.S.S – School, Socialise, Students, Success
Edge-Ukate
6th Former
A Teenage Life
Scandal
Brentwood Gossip!
Detention
12) Would you be interested in your school magazine if it included news and events out side of school?
Maybe: 3
Yes: 14
No: 3
13) If a problem page was to be included do you think people would respond to it?
Yes: 13
No: 10
14) Is there anything that is not included in this questionnaire that you would like to see in your school magazine? If so what would it be?
Music News
Party Pictures/embarrassing pictures
Nutrition
Quiz
Quiz
Sports
1) Are you male or female?
Male: 6
Female: 14
2) How old are you?
16: 14
17: 6
3) List three of your hobbies/interests
Singing: 2
Netball: 1
Shopping: 4
Horse Riding: 2
Jogging: 1
Cricket: 1
Drama: 2
Drinking/Partying: 4
Seeing Friends: 10
PC (Video games): 4
Blogging: 1
Music: 5
Table Tennis: 1
Train Spotting: 1
Drawing: 2
Football: 5
Swimming: 2
TV: 2
Tennis: 2
Badminton: 1
Reading: 2
Dancing: 1
Painting: 2
Gym: 1
Chess: 1
4) What are your three favourite colours?
Pink: 10
Orange: 6
Green: 5
Silver: 1
Blue: 13
Black: 3
White: 2
Red: 9
Purple: 6
Yellow: 3
Burgundy: 1
Mauve: 1
5) What do you like most about school?
Socialising: 13
Learning: 2
Drama: 1
English: 1
Going home: 2
Geography: 1
6) If you were to interview someone in school who would it be?
Mr Fishleigh: 2
Mrs Mason: 7
Caretaker: 3
Mr Fishleigh (2): 1
6th Former: 5
Miss Robinson: 1
7) Out of the list below what are you most likely to read in a magazine?
Career Advice: 5
Teacher Gossip: 10
Events in school: 4
8) Who would you prefer to make your school magazine?
Student: 18
Teacher:
9) If a review was to be written what would you read about?
House events: 4
School Trip: 14
Exam Success: 6
10) Out of the names below what would you like your magazine to be called?
HELP!: 3
Scholar: 5
ASTAR: 12
10) If you would like your school magazine to called something else what would you call it?
S.S.S.S – School, Socialise, Students, Success
Edge-Ukate
6th Former
A Teenage Life
Scandal
Brentwood Gossip!
Detention
12) Would you be interested in your school magazine if it included news and events out side of school?
Maybe: 3
Yes: 14
No: 3
13) If a problem page was to be included do you think people would respond to it?
Yes: 13
No: 10
14) Is there anything that is not included in this questionnaire that you would like to see in your school magazine? If so what would it be?
Music News
Party Pictures/embarrassing pictures
Nutrition
Quiz
Quiz
Sports
Media Questionnaire about School Magazines
1) Are you male or female?
Female:
Male:
2) How old are you?
3) List 3 of your hobbies/interests
1)
2)
3)
4) What are your three favourite colours?
1)
2)
3)
5) What do you like most about school?
6) If you were to interview someone in the school who would it be?
7) Out of the list below what are you most likely to read in a magazine?
1) Career advice
2) Teacher gossip
3) Events in school
8) Who would you prefer to make your school magazine?
Student
Teacher
9) If a review was written what would you read about?
House events
School trip
Exam success
10) Out of the names below what you like your magazine to be called?
HELP!
Scholar
ASTAR
11) If you would like your school magazine to be called something else what would you call it?
12) Would you be interested in your school magazine if it included news and events outside of school?
13) If a problem/Advice page was to be included do you think people would respond to it?
14) Is there anything that is not included in this questionnaire that you would like to see in your school magazine? If so what would it be?
1) Are you male or female?
Female:
Male:
2) How old are you?
3) List 3 of your hobbies/interests
1)
2)
3)
4) What are your three favourite colours?
1)
2)
3)
5) What do you like most about school?
6) If you were to interview someone in the school who would it be?
7) Out of the list below what are you most likely to read in a magazine?
1) Career advice
2) Teacher gossip
3) Events in school
8) Who would you prefer to make your school magazine?
Student
Teacher
9) If a review was written what would you read about?
House events
School trip
Exam success
10) Out of the names below what you like your magazine to be called?
HELP!
Scholar
ASTAR
11) If you would like your school magazine to be called something else what would you call it?
12) Would you be interested in your school magazine if it included news and events outside of school?
13) If a problem/Advice page was to be included do you think people would respond to it?
14) Is there anything that is not included in this questionnaire that you would like to see in your school magazine? If so what would it be?
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