I've previously done an analysis of general fashion
magazine, so today I thought I would do one for a school magazine. Today
I will be reviewing Burton Borough Schools magazine 'The BBS Times'.
Like
all magazines, ‘The BBS Times’ has a masthead. This has taken up the whole top width
of the page which helps it to stand out. The font ‘New Times Roman’ that they
have used isn't the best of choices. For a school magazine, this is just too
formal. It needs a more modern font like ‘Verdana’ to suit all ages. They have also put in a nice touch of adding
the logo on both sides of the masthead, to advertise the school.
The
plain black and white isn't a good approach This is very dull and boring and
wont catches peoples eyes. It needs some more colour and different sized text
to stand out a bit. Even some more pictures would help this bland front! Come on
BBS, you can do better than this!
The
layout isn't very interesting either. The two columns down the page is just
BORING! A full colour picture with a few lines of writing would suffice You want
to interest people to read the magazine, not make them fall asleep by just
looking at it.
Obviously
‘The BBS Times’ isn't the best example of a school magazine, but as sure as
anything, we can learn from it.
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