School Magazines Research

Who Is The Audience? The audience is mainly adults who probably have children at school or who want to find out what's going on where they live. I can tell it's a adults magazine from the titles on the front cover which wouldn't appeal to children.

How Do They Appeal To Their Audience?It appeals to the audience as the photo is really big and stands out as it is directly in the middle of the front cover. Also it would appeal to different audiences as it has a variety of different stories in it.

What Types Of Stories Do They Cover? The stories they cover are schools,lifestyle and different charities. They also add in FREE offers to try and get you interested in reading/buying it. As the gift in this magazine is for John Lewis, it shows that the audience would be quite posh if they shop in John Lewis compared to if they shopped in ASDA. It looks like a private school from looking at the logo and the name of the school.

What Are Typical Names? The typical names are usually the names of the school that it's about. However on this magazine it's not the name of the school so it might not be a school magazine, and just a local magazine talking about the school as the main story. The name of the school is on the left underneath the title which also has the school logo above it as well.

Layout & Colour? The layout is neatly set out and the colours are green, white and grey so there's not too many colours that makes it over-crowded. Also the school logo and uniform is green as well which fits in with the colour scheme.

Who Is The Audience? The audience is for students in school and who probably like going to the library. I can tell this from the photo on the front cover and the sub-title as well.

How Do They Appeal To Their Audience? It would appeal as there is hardly any writing and a big colourful photo that stands out on the front.

What Types Of Stories Do They Cover? The main story it covers is the new library.

What Are Typical Names? The magazine is called Student Times and a lot of national newspapers are called 'times' as well. e.g The Sunday Times.

Layout & Colour? The layout is just a large photo,title and a very short sentence about what's in the magazine.

The colours are very basic as the photo is very colourful so they have just stuck to using 2 plain colours for the writing (blue & white)