Planning of my front cover

 Planning stage  of my front cover
 
      The school magazine follows the policies and convections of a typical school magazine. My masthead is placed right in the middle of the front cover to attract the target audience which in this case is students and some teachers who are interested to find out what students are doing across every boarder of subject choice. The issue and date number is going to be placed in the corner and underneath the master head. The main cover line is the boldest and the largest text on the screen having the text anchoring the images and making everything stand out and more clear to the students. The main cover line or in this case in my front cover the main master head is followed with a main image of me standing looking down at the master head showing that I am aware of the countdown to the new building in RHS. I have so far chosen the colour blue in the background colour and the image to fade in and contrast with the background colour to show that everything is joined together. I have set my context page to be split into two half triangles so that I could fit in the four main points. As I have researched many different context page this was the most effective way to show all the events that are taking place of the new school buildings. I made sure the date line is standing out and can be viewed by the audiences very easily. As these colour are simple and are not doll therefore it will attract various amount of readers.

      To follow the codes and conventions of a school magazine my main image in my content page has been placed in the middle bottom half of the page.

      The word content is located at the top left of the page. I made sure that i have enough storyline to fill my context page so that it becomes appealing to the students and teachers.

      To create my school magazine I used Photoshop which is a hardware that is responsible of making a magazine designer. I found this software particularly hard to use because i never used it before but when I got the hang of things it really brightened my front cover and context page. I have identified how important choosing specific colours for your front cover magazine because that is the direct attention of the audience’s eyes and therefore needs to be eye catching. This is all helped by the Photoshop to help me choose a light blue colour so that its not too bright but it balances out brightness and darkness together making the image stand out more. I have made sure that the image covers the whole magazine and not part of it because this follows the codes and conventions of how to show and effective school magazine. At this session I managed to choose he front cover background and image. I particularly chose that specific image because it shows that I have a interesting idea in other terms as I am looking down at the countdown it shows that I’m curious and waiting until the final intervention of the school

      I chose the fonts to be in that way and also that size because it shows the colour contrasting with the background and the “N” being the biggest word as the countdown goes up and the down over the “N”. The background colour is light blue contrasting with the grey to show the image as a fade therefore the words can stand out more over the light. Also I used this slogan to improve my school magazine front cover because it gave me the idea to create a magazine that has all the different activities building up to the final new school building.
      As I have cropped the image I have got rid of the other parts of the image to manipulate it so that my facial expression stands out more in the shading light instead of the unwanted accessories at the background. Also I cropped the bottom part of my body to show my folded arms and my concentration and focus instead of what I am wearing.