Contents Page

For my contents page I chose a very simple design. I did not use any other contents page for ideas as I wanted my one to be original and different. I chose a black background as I find this more elegant and less boring than white, and loaded the brushes Photoshop. I thought that it would be interesting to have just one shape in the middle of the page. The shape I chose creates a slightly mystical feel, which to makes it even more appealing. I felt that purple looked good on the black background, and I also chose it because it is one of the theme colours of my magazine. I used the other theme colours blue and yellow for my text. I highlighted the cover stories in blue because I saw other magazines do it and thought it made it easier for the reader to find their desired story. I chose those particular fonts for the title and subtitles because they looked slightly sci-fi and so matched the general feel of the page.

Front Cover

This is the finished front cover for my school magazine. I think that it is quite successful as it is colourful and looks quite professional. I used Adobe Photoshop to create it as it had so many tools and effects I could use to make the front cover look as professional as possible. For example, it let me clone out some unwanted cables in the background to make the main image look better.
I chose this font for the masthead as it looked original and was therefore a unique typeface to distinguish my magazine from others. I chose the name 'fly' because it can imply aspirations and aiming high, the ideals of the student core buyer.
I only used 3 different colours on my front cover, excluding black, to not make it too busy and to create 'theme colours' which will be the base colour running throughout my whole magazine.
I positioned the cover lines on the sides of the page as best as I could so as to not completely cover my model.

School Magazine Cover Photoshoot

I had to plan and carry out a photoshoot for the front cover of my school magazine. This is the plan I made for the photo.



I chose to take it in front of the school entrance with the ‘NATIONAL SCHOOLS’ sign visible because the setting is relevant and on the front cover it will make it clear that the magazine is a school magazine. I wanted the model to be female because the school the magazine is for is a girl’s school so it makes the magazine specific to the school. This is also why I wanted the model to wear the school uniform. The model was to have her arms crossed to show the seriousness of school and education, and to either look upwards or into the distance to show aspiration- the theme of my magazine ‘fly’, which is about aiming high.

I only took 2 photos because I thought they were good enough for my magazine cover. Out of the two I chose n.1 because the other one was slightly wonkier. Although I mostly got what I wanted in my photo, I didn’t manage to make the school logo visible because I didn’t notice the my model Lucy’s hair was in the way. I also changed my mind about being the model for my own photoshoot because I thought that it would be harder to get my desired result if someone else tried to interpret my plan. The setting for the photo wasn’t ideal because there were a lot of cables and some obstruction from an outdoor office, but I later managed to get rid of the cables by cloning them out.

n.1


n.2