ANALYSIS: What I have learned from assembling a Sixth Form Magazine Presentation

By creating three PowerPoint presentations on three different sixth form magazines and combining them into one presentation, I have learned that most sixth form magazine cover pages use the following terminology: top lines, main images, date line (not always), masthead, original typography, strap lines and main cover lines, just like other forms of magazine that are sold in stores everywhere. The lack of barcodes and prices signify the inability of the magazines to be purchasable; they can only be sold from their respective sixth forms. The main cover lines represent the main articles inside the magazine, which further attracts pupils and teachers who want to read it and become fascinated by the amount of content that arises within the portmanteau of pages. However, the lack of exciting tags and selling lines on some cover pages may make them too serious and flat for others. In order to compensate the problem, very colourful main images (such as the painted owl on the ONE Magazine) are added to enrich the cover page with colour and vibrancy.
Sixth form magazines sometimes credit various people - some cover models, and others the ones responsible for editing, writing and contributing to the contents of the plethora of pages to read. If there are a lack of pictures in a front cover or contents page then that must mean that the school the same magazine comes from is made in a cheap way - it may suggest that the publishers of the magazine are unmotivated and lazy. However, the prominence of art students in a publishing team may portray them as creative and ambitious, able to excite students by adding colourful features in a magazine that easily catch one's eye. An original piece of art located anywhere in the magazine issue (this includes the front page and the contents) may signify that the editing team are a group of professional publishers that are also responsible for original content that does not stem from already-existing source material. Crediting their names in the contents page (as seen in the UPDATE Sixth Form Magazine) and their inspirational message to students makes the magazine seem light-hearted to read and become interested in - a major contribution to the sixth form's success in media publishing.
From what I can learn in the presentation, the target audience intended to read these sixth form magazines are mostly sixth form students aged 16 to 18 due to the teen-oriented photographs that they insert into the front pages that appeal to them (the image of Rebecca Thackaray on the ONE Magazine is one example of this). The contemporary fonts, layout and topics that are defined as sophisticated all apply to the reading desires of students interested in learning more about the activities of the school they are in.