Plan of preliminary task 1

My target audience for my school magazine is 14 to 19 year olds (which includes sixth formers). I chose this target audience because this age group covers most students within the school and in this age range, most people have similar reading abilities. Also, my school magazine is aimed at both females and males.

The language that I will use in my school magazine is informal language. This is because it would hopefully meet the students standards as they don't want complex words and they want to be entertained.

The content (which includes audience expectations) is that my target audience would expect the managzine to be entertaining but informative. This could be done by the magazine containing some news about the school as well as some entertainment, like a few games etc.

I would have multiple images within my school magazine, in the post I made after this, I uploaded a plan of what the layout of the magazine would look like. I would have one main image in the center of the front cover which would be of a student. This image would be a large image, so it would stand out. Other images would be with the important headlines on the front cover, these would be reasonably smaller than the large one in the center of the front cover.

I would attract my target audience by making the magazine stand out and making it eye catchy. I would do this by using a variety of different colours and different font styles. I wouldnt be overly girly with the colour and font, for example using pink swirly fonts beucase my magazine is aimed at both genders.