After looking at both products I discovered how each text differentiated, using this information I could work out who their relative target audiences were. The front cover of the Deyes High School newsletter I thought was aimed at the students parents seeing as its features were very formal, Serif fonts were used and there was no image, stereotypically speaking adults tend find this kind of formal, factual layout more aesthetically pleasing than children/adolescents do. However the same could not be said for the St John Bosco school magazine, the features that were included (Large image, Puffs, San serif fonts) on its front cover, again, stereotypically speaking tend to be more aesthetically pleasing to students who often appreciate visual aids more then their parents.Knowing this, I thought would create a unique product and try and combine certain conventions of the two different styles of school paper which would hopefully appeal to both parents and students therefore widening my demographic and potential audience.
Above is a drafted image of my front cover with labels included explaining why I have chosen the features and what I hope they will achieve. If the image is too small to view in its current state then it can be enlarged by right clicking it.
The next step in my project is to research the conventions of a school newsletter/magazine contents page, and create a draft version based on my findings, I will use the same two products that I used for researching front covers as I hope to learn about any consistency they may have used in colour schemes, layout etc and implement some of this into my project.
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