In my preliminary task I will be taking a photo of a student for my front cover. My shot shall be a median-close up with a storyline and a header of that student, so this will be advertising their trade mark. Also I will need to do a mock up a two page article spread and a contents page.
For my preliminary task my front cover is about advertising a certain school events and news. As you can see I have related my contents page as much as possible to my front cover by having on the cover contents.
For my front cover I tried hard to cut around the image and placing it on a black background because it hides away the bits that were unfortunately not cut out; since it shown up a lot on my white background.
I have chosen two different fonts for my front cover, one for the name of the magazine and the other for feature articles. I chose a bold white title for the name of my magazine because it shown up well on the black background. I chose the font to be Base 05 because it look appealing to a young audience, (teenager) . For the feature article titles I chosen a font that could relate to the name of the magazine, however I wanted to change the colour to red so it was different from the colour white. In this case I found out that using red, did not show up well on a black background, so I used a red outline for my font while the font remained white. My text boxes are transparent so they didn't cover my image of the main featured article.
I have chosen two different fonts for my front cover, one for the name of the magazine and the other for feature articles. I chose a bold white title for the name of my magazine because it shown up well on the black background. I chose the font to be Base 05 because it look appealing to a young audience, (teenager) . For the feature article titles I chosen a font that could relate to the name of the magazine, however I wanted to change the colour to red so it was different from the colour white. In this case I found out that using red, did not show up well on a black background, so I used a red outline for my font while the font remained white. My text boxes are transparent so they didn't cover my image of the main featured article.
In my real magazine I will include a bar code, a issue number and date in the future since I had forgotten to include this in my preliminary.
The preliminary task for my front cover has been useful because I am impressed with my front cover and I was able to use photoshop and indesign programs; my front cover looks appeal to my young audience.
For my contents page, I have looked into various amount of other contents pages and thought about what I may include in my preliminary contents page. I have found out that using a variety of contents, such news, quiz's, win prizes column, an editors comment box, can entertain your audience more. I have included a seek peek of what's next weeks issue to look like, to influence my audience to buy next week issue. To grab your audience's attention, you have to research what their needs and wants are , by doing this you can enhance it by displaying it in the contents pages. A contents page should include images to give the audience a taster of what they expect in the magazine, having a couple of images can make it look appealing if they include the right sort of images by having bright colours. My contents page should either have a white or black background, if black then a white font writing should be used, but if white then black font instead.
The preliminary task for my front cover has been useful because I am impressed with my front cover and I was able to use photoshop and indesign programs; my front cover looks appeal to my young audience.
For my contents page, I have looked into various amount of other contents pages and thought about what I may include in my preliminary contents page. I have found out that using a variety of contents, such news, quiz's, win prizes column, an editors comment box, can entertain your audience more. I have included a seek peek of what's next weeks issue to look like, to influence my audience to buy next week issue. To grab your audience's attention, you have to research what their needs and wants are , by doing this you can enhance it by displaying it in the contents pages. A contents page should include images to give the audience a taster of what they expect in the magazine, having a couple of images can make it look appealing if they include the right sort of images by having bright colours. My contents page should either have a white or black background, if black then a white font writing should be used, but if white then black font instead.
Well done on completing this task. Try and focus on the cutout next time - it's hard to get it just right! Also, some of the text spills off the page, so you need to be aware of where the margins are and use up more of the blank space around the main picture!
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