Original Image.

Here is the image I took in medium close up, before any editing for my magazine cover.

Research

Before beginning our student magazine cover, we researched using current student magazine covers and contents pages that already exist, to analyse the essential items needed on a cover. We realised certain similarities between the different covers and decided to create a questionaire. This meant we could directly address the audience we were personally aiming at (for example students aged 16+) with questions relating to their magazine giving them a direct input. It also meant we were able to distinguish between what they wanted to see available. The questionaire had 9 questions in total and had many ways of recording personal preferance. For example; tick boxes, recording in order of number preferance, circling the item/s that was mostly attributed to them and their hobbies. From the results we were able to discard and include only the topics/ issues that were most popular with the majority of the consensus. For example; Music was an extremely popular pastime which meant it was then something we would feature in the magazine for example; local gig guides and band reviews. We were able to understand the style in which we should write in (chatty).
The results from these questionaires as a whole class, are clearly shown below in a bar chart form: The total consensus is 13.

Research: National student magazine!

National student magazine
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Here is my student magazine analysis for the preliminary task.