This was my original flat plan. I decided not to use this but adapt on it. I thought some of the ideas I had on this were ok, but it was a bit plain and boring. Some space is wasted on here so I decided to use these ideas but try to make it better.

My ideas

I have thought of a couple of possible names for this publication.
These are:
· HCS Newsletter
· Heston News
· Heston Weekly Update
· This week in Heston

I decided to go with Heston News. The reason I chose this over the other 3 choices is it is formal but it also is simple. As this is targeted at teenagers the title should not be boring or long. This is not childish and not too boring. I think it will be engaging for both teenagers and adults.

There are certain things you need to take into consideration when choosing colours that are appealing to the audience. You need to think about the emotions associtated with colours, for example blue is calming, red is related to anger.

I want to choose a calm but interesting colour.

Using a colour wheel it can help me choose attractive colours and also show you which colours are complimentary. If there is a good combination of colours it will make the readers experience better.




















After choosing my masthead I then decided to choose a font for it. Here were some of my possible choices.














I decided to use the bottom one, number 4. I thought number 1,2 and 4 was a bit too formal and 3 were a bit illegible. Number 5 I think is suitable for a teenager newsletter.

I’m going to try and keep the layout to my newsletter cover simple and not cluttered. Teenagers do not want to go through useless paragraph just find out something.

Introduction to Preliminary task

Preliminary task

Our preliminary task was to produce a front cover for the weekly school newsletter. I am trying to create a front cover, which will engage the reader and want them to immediately pick up the newsletter and look forward to reading it. I aim to create a cover, which is appealing to the target audience; ages 13-19.To do this I am going to need to select different colours and fonts which teenagers find interesting.

The task requires that it must be a front cover for the school newsletter. It can be based on any theme, however it must be related to school. A mid shot of a Heston Community School student must be used. It must include a masthead and appropriate layout of text.

I have currently decided on two different themes for my front cover. As there are a lot of exams going on, I think it would be fitting to do something based on this. The ideas I have for this are either stress, which exams put on the students. The previous year 11’s, now sixth form, had outstanding results in their GCSE’s and this is also something I could target. A mid shot of an ecstatic student could be shown. The story behind this could be inspiring children to achiever there full potential. The other idea I had is that children are becoming more and more obese as technology progresses and so I believe alerting children about this is a good way to attack the situation. Bringing this to student’s notice from a young age will help prevent health problems in the future. I believe as this is a direct issue that these students can relate to and will want to know how to address this problem.

I am going to target mostly students from the school years 7 to the second year of sixth form; this is almost the whole teenage years. The newsletter is most likely going to be red by the students rather then the parents. So addressing the parents about these issues is useful but I think it is better to directly talk to the people it is affecting.

As I am going to target teenagers, I am going to use bright colours and attractive fonts. This is to entice the readers and make them want to read the newsletter. This creates interesting reading for the audience.

I have decided that the aim of my publication is to entertain the readers. I will also inform readers of events using an interesting and appealing layout. This allows me to engage the reader and pass on information. I believe this will be more effective then just informing them or just entertaining them.

If this were a real magazine I would distribute it weekly. This is because there are many advantages of distributing this weekly rather then every few days or monthly.

The advantages are if you are distributing weekly, you may not have enough stories to cover a certain week or you may not enough money as it costs a lot to produce these magazines and doing it so regularly could cause you to lose money.

If you decide to monthly distribute them you may not be giving your readers the latest news first and this will cause them to stop reading this magazine and change to a different magazine.