Prelim Evaluation

School Magazine Cover

As our preliminary task we were asked to design a cover and contents page for a school magazine. We had to include a mid-shot on the cover and use photoshop to create the pages. We started by drawing up a draft for each page, this allowed us to thing about the layout, title, features and colour scheme.

These are my drafts, they're very untidy and do not show my colour scheme (black, turquoise and white) however, they gave me a guide line of what photo I needed and the layout of the text.

I called my magazine 'EDUCATOR' as I preferred not to go for the cliche 'skwl4U' etc. I designed a basic masthead for my front cover on photoshop, I repeated the masthead on the contents page too.

I faced a problem when there was only a male student available to be photographed, personally I think having a male model works well because it opens up the audience to lads too as it doesn't appear to be a 'girly' magazine. 

Overall, I think the cover looked quite good considering my poor skills on photoshop but I needed to spend more time on my contents page to make it more detailed and professional.