First blog- Task

27th September 2010


Today I was given a sheet with details on how to complete my coursework. The sheet gave me information on when our deadline was and what was expected from the examiners. In my second lesson of the day I went on fronter to look of A* examples of coursework for me to look at to get an idea on how our coursework is ideally meant to look.


But first I had to prioritise my preliminary task. In my preliminary task I would have to create a school magazine with an appropriate front page, and I also have to create a contents page. With this in mind I decided to carry out some research. So firstly I had to make up some names for my future magazine. It took me a considreble amount of time until finally I had 4 titles. They were Jimba magazine, BD heat, sixth form times, and simply the school magazine. Each title had it’s pros and cons. Jimba magazine sounded random and weird, but at the same time it was exiting and different. BD heat, my favourite, was good because it would grab people’s attention immediately aswell as it sounded fun. 6th form times sounded to official and boring so I was sceptical. Finally my last title was school magazine, it was short and precise, and also the students would immediately know what the magazine is likely to contain.


Here are my results from asking students in sixth form to vote on a title for my magazine


Jimba magazine-8


BD heat- 16


Sixth form times 2

School magazine-1

The title I predicted most likely to win came out on top. But I was also glad that it was universally popular with most of the peers. Also because of the success of my research I decided that I would try and ask the students more things to do with the magazine In my next blog I will be do more research in what real life magazines are like and whether I can extract new ideas from them.