Preliminary task

For my preliminary task i am doing the front cover and the contents page of a student magazine. For this task we have been put into pairs and asked to create these 2 pieces that will be our student magazine. Because were in pairs we have to take a picture of each other for the front cover and choose a theme or the reason why that person is on the front cover whether its because of a sporting achievement, a music achievement or even an academic achievement.

I have used bright colours to give it a nice glow to it instead of it being gloomy and dull.  I have tried to keep the same font all the way through the front cover so it doesn't confuse people when reading the different headlines. I have also kept the font colours the same because black is easy to read on the background.

I could improve on my front cover by adding more headlines around the main image. Also i could try and use more interesting colours for the front cover. And maybe fill up more of the blank space. I have also got a line through the page which makes it brighter on one side which i need to make sure i don't do when it comes to the real magazine. I will need to get rid of the boxes i have left on my front cover this time. And i need to fill the empty space when i do my music magazine.

For my contents page i have drawn up a rough sketch of what it would look like. I have laid it out so that it has a big picture in the middle to advertise the article that will be in the middle. Then i will have the weekly news on the left of the picture. And on the right i would have information of the article.  Then i would have a picture of the other 2 main headlines and Featured this week under my main picture.