Deconstructing Fast Times at Camden High School Magazine

Fast Times at Camden High School Magazine
Fast Times at Camden High is the school magazine I made in Media Studies this year with Louise and Billy. We looked at a range of other school magazines to help and inspire our own one. The idea of our title came from the title of a well known film, 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'. We wanted the theme of our magazine to be like a high school year book- this idea is reinforced through the style and layout of the contents page. We used the same colours as the film did- Yellow, Red and Purple. These colours and different shades of them are used throughout the magazine. Our sell lines are all taken from titles of other well known films, however we altered them to suit the needs of the magazine. For example, High School Musical became High School Marijuana and so on. The photo image we used for the front cover was taken by Billy one lunch time. It consists of a number of students in Camden- this was done to highlight the friendly atmosphere in the school. We generated our own bar code from a website on the Internet to add to the realism of the magazine. As this is a school magazine, we made it free so it was available to everyone in the school.