The first thing I did was to do a questionnaire on the title name, title font and size, colour scheme, the best topic to put on my anchoring text and the best cover shot. I did this to help me decide what would be best for my target audience; I also put up a selection of fonts for the titles.
The choice of title names I had were

Aspire                     Title                         Fresh                       Silver                       Sherrie                    Spunk

After getting my results I realised the most popular title was 'Spunk' which had just one vote more than the title 'Aspire'. I did more survays to find out what colour scheme and front cover shot people would like. I also asked my participants to choose the cover story that they would fing more interesting.
After collecting all my data I came up with the magazine template below:

After assesing my front cover template, I realised that it looked very cheap and lacked energy; the picture was also blurry although it displayed a 'Z thory' sloping shape created by the models heads.

I decided to look at my results again and decided to use the second most popular choices and retake my cover image. I came up with the cover below:

As you can see I changed the title and picture. I also encorperated the Ashcroft school logo with my title font. The yellow backgrownd used is to match one of the models ties. I then realised that the pale yellow colour was a bit dull so I changed the colour of the backgrownd.