Examples of School magazine front covers.

Target audience for school magazines are often for parents of students who go to the relevant school of where this magazine is coming from. The aim of the school magazine is to inform parents about what is going on at their childs respective schools. It is important that magazine editors follow the main conventions and aims, in order to create a successful magazine and attract a mass audience. There are a number of ways that a magazine can meet their target audience. They can do it through their use of colours. As noticed in these two magazines, they are using brighter colours which represent a family/ young people's audience. They can also use pictures to represent their target audience. For example, the picture on the right shows three little children which conveys that it is a family magazine.