Preliminary Task of Magazine Cover and Contents Page

Preliminary task
For the preliminary task I had to create a front cover and contents page designed for a new school or college magazine. I decided to do this for a school, we had to include a photograph of a medium close-up photograph of a student. I decided to research into guilsborough school newsletters, this gave me the idea of headlines and information that should be included in the magazine.

Front Cover Analyse
For the media front cover i thought it was a good idea to choose three main colours for the fonts, I chose Blue, Black and White, these are all pretty simple colours and tie in well with the theme of the guilsborough school logo making it iconic. Also by using similar colours to the logo you can easily see the connection with the magazine to the school. The headlines/captions are scattered randomly on the sides of the cover, this is a typical layout for many magazines. The background is a very bold picture of a school student, as the background is the largest part of the magazine and so catches the reader first i though that it shouldn't be too hidden from lots of text. I thought it was important for the picture to be taken in a good light so you an clearly see that the student is from guilsborough and is also connected to the magazine. Not only this but the background also tells us about the genre of the magazine which shows that it is for school students but for the upper half of the school.







Contents Page Analyse

It was very important for the contents page to be in theme with the front cover and so I included a stripe of bold blocks which was also on the front cover. The black stripe was important to include as the reader can see a sense of style from the magazine and they can clearly see it is all themed. I decided to include a photograph which was a primary image long shot in natural lighting. It pictured some students from Guilsborough this includes the mise-en-scene as the uniform implies they are the students. By including students i thought this would encourage other students their age to read the magazine.