Right, since the last time i updated my blog i have had done alot of work. I have finished my school magazine prelim task and have moved onto the main task of the music magazine.

Preliminary task: School Magazine

Here is my school magazine front cover, I used photoshop to compose it and i think it doesnt look too bad. It has the main features of a magazine front cover, like:

• A masthead; this is located at the top of the page and is in an eye cactching colour and an appealing font. The font is Zaphino and is quite sophisticated and sets a tone for the cover.
• The strap line; again this is in the same font as the masthead (this creates a tone for the magazine, the tone created is sophisticated and quite posh) this is situated just underneath the masthead as a sort of slogan. Something which will stick with the reader to make them remember the magazine.
  
• There are the coverlines which show the stories in the magazine. They are in a nice font (Lucida Calligraphy) and colour which matches the style of the cover.
• The main image is of a student, he is looking directly out of the cover, this is the image having a direct mode of address.
• The background is a single simple colour and has the the college names behind the main image. This makes the cover look more interesting, i think, it also fills the page and makes it look busy.

Contents Page

This is a very basic design for the contents page of my school mag. It shows quite simply where the images and text would be. The blue boxes being the images and the white being text, its a very simple representation. The colour scheme would probably have been like the front cover, blue with lighter colour text, with the same style font.