School Music MagazineBy Nathan Fawthrop

Smiling, centre of magazine, used to attract audience in and show that she is happy about her GCSE results.

Masthead, big font with dark colours and light coloured glow

On the right hand side we see bright writing to attract the reader in, with the more important stories being on there, such as the results of GCSE and changes in the school. This is an important part to have as it will allow the reader to know the main stories and make them want to read more into it.

On this magazine, we see things like a barcode and pricing, but we see a big issue that the majority of the front page is taken up by text and could pull people away from reading the magazine, a way to fix this would be by organising the writing more and removing the less important stories so people will want to get a quick view and see what’s important, as the majority of people who buy magazines decide which one they want in under 5 seconds.

We see that there is one person on the shot in the middle here, the same as the last magazine which may mean it’s a good idea, but this may limit my choices of ideas for a magazine as there would only be one person, I may add another person and make the magazine look more friendly to read.

We see that the writing on the blog is quite a bland colour, which could lower the chances of someone seeing it, as the colour would be hard to see in the mass of brightly coloured and vibrant magazines