Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Front Covers Of School Magazines

This is the front cover from King Edward VI high school for girls 2011 summer issue of their school magazine. The layout is very simple - yet sophisticated, as is the font used helping to create a professional appearance. The main feature is a picture of three students performing in a play - showing the talent of the students and therefore the school. The actual image itself is of good quality and appears to also be quite professional and clearly wasn't taken randomly.
However, the same school a year and a half previously in winter 2010 weren't at the same high standard. This issues' front cover shows a poor quality photo which not only that, is to an outsider, quite random (but to a student attending the school it probably wouldn't be) as according to the title it shows an exchange visit to Vancouver. However, it is unexplained why two of the three girls shown are dressed as chocolate bars. Overall, the front cover for this issue does not look as sophisticated as the later issue. The central colours are pink and yellow which create the appearance of being aimed at a younger audience, whereas the summer 2011 cover seems aimed at the older students. On the other hand though the same text and layout are used but looks out of place on this issue as they connote sophistication - something the rest of this cover lacks.

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