Questionnaire feedback and Front cover

My next challenge was to decide on what price, title, image and other features my magazine should have. I created a questionnaire about magazines and gave them out to both year 12 students and year 13 students. The questionnaire asked what price people would pay for a sixth form magazine, what articles they would want to read about and the design that would attract them. The results showed that the majority would pay around £1 for a sixth form magazine, that they would like to read articles about upcoming events and trips. From this information i decided to make my magazine focus more on sixth form trips abroad and concerts in the school. However, i also wanted to incorporate Student council information and a section for parents and teachers.

First mock up

Front Cover
My initial ideas for the title of my sixth form magazine were:

-F.S Magazine
-On The Hill
-Fortismere On The Hill

I decided to chose the third title, but i wanted the front cover to have an unconventional design to make the magazine stand out from others. I didn't pick a particularly original name so i decided to make the layout different to make the front cover seem more youthful and different. Once i had decided on the title for my magazine i then moved on to decide on the design and colours for the front cover. The magazine is a Christmas issue so has lots of red and green text and colours, but i wanted the main co0lours to be the school colours: green and blue. The front cover is set out with "FORTISMERE" written vertically on the left side of the page and the words "On The Hill" written as a title. I chose to do the Fortismere text written down the side in a pale blue, thick font and the "On The Hill" in a pale green colour. The other text is in bright red, green and yellow colours to give the magazine a youthful feel.

The image i decided to use are of students on a trip, i edited the image on photoshop by making it in black and white, darkening the colours, increasing the contrasts in colours and cropping it. I decided to use this image because i wanted to show students looking happy and especially because it shows them on a trip abroad. I also chose it because i planned to do a spread about it in the magazine.