My Preliminary Front Cover Comparison

To the left, is my school front cover and to the right is a published school magazine front cover.

School magazines and music magazine differ entirely, because Music magazine front cover include aspiring people, maintaining eye contact, whereas for school magazines, eye contact is not necessary, as school magazines are usually for the parents, and they want to see the students engaged in work. Both front covers include a student/students sitting down doing some type of work. They also include a bit of information at the bottom of the page. The ‘parent and school’ magazine includes the information at the bottom of the page in a black box because the rest of the magazine does not really contain a lot of information, and there is a lack of cover lines used for it. The reason I used it is because the ‘student of the week’ is supposed to draw the reader into reading the magazine. However, the text was not easy to read, so I inputted a black background.

School magazines are slightly harder to analyse because they all differed depending on the school. For instance, my magazine contains the school logo, which the ‘parent and school’ magazine does not include. However, a majority of school magazines do include the school logo, as recognition of the school.