Preliminary Task Bethany Russell

This is the before and after picture that I have used for my front cover. I used photo shop to edit this picture. I made the picture more vibrant to make it more appropriate for the cover of my magazine as I wanted to improve the look of my magazine and make it look more appealing and will give the impression of a positive magazine.

I made my flat plan prior to making my magazine, I kept my front cover and contents page with the theme that I created on my flat plan. I kept the colour scheme the same and used combinations of the header text. For the main body text I used the same that I had planned to use on my flat plan. The only thing that I haven’t used on my flat plan is all of the pictures that I had taken as I didn’t want to over crown my front cover and contents page.

This is an image of the flat plan of the front cover and the actual front cover, I have made a few alterations from the original flat plan to the front cover as when I was putting my magazine together I felt that it didn’t look right, so I changed the text boxes and turned them into main cover lines as I thought a school magazine needs to be easy to read and I didn’t want the front cover to be covered in text as I wanted it to seem more appealing. I made the Main image cover the whole background as I wanted it to stand out. I also got rid of the bottom strapline as I felt it over crowded the page and I wanted the page to be as simple as possible but give away some information regarding the articles inside.

I also made alterations to my contents page I changed one text box into two smaller ones as I thought a large amount of text would be over powering so to limit the text down I added a box to show the stories from the cover and added a text box with comments from head of sixth form to give an insight to sixth form and the magazine, also I have deleted one of the quote boxes and just extended one of them to make a large quote box as I thought only one was needed as it would have over crowded the page.

The colours used are suited to each other. The layout is clear and well structured. The text does not take the focus away from the image used. The magazine is informative

and really well thought out. -Kajal Rana

The cover photo looks well edited with an eye catching colour. However the inside cover could follow a similar colour scheme to the front cover. – Grace Thomas

I think the magazine is well structured and the pictures used seem relevant to what the magazine is about. But however I don’t like the font that you have used I think it doesn’t look professional. Gugu Mhlanga