Preliminary Task

This im my preliminary task, a front cover for a school magazine. The image i used is of a student in the libary, i chose to set this in the libary, therefore the magazine will easily be recogizable as educational. I felt that the title of the magazine 'SMC' could of stood out more, to do this i would of filled the lettering in with the colour black or yellow. This dominant topic of the magazine was for A'levels, i felt that i made this clear as the text stands out onto the white faded background and the text is a rather large. I wanted to add colour into the text, this is why the colour yellow was chose. I feel that this will draw people to the magazine more, i used this colour for the topic 'Football Glory' as this topic is a proud topic for the college, i felt this colour represented that. I used a plain white background with the text 'New York 2010' i felt that this would draw students in and therefore would lead them to wanting to know more.

This is a rough hand drawn contents page, this was part of the premlminary task and here above is mine. I layed out so the text 'contents' was large and at the top, therefore this would make is easily recognisable to readers. I also wanted a image to dominate the page, so i placed the image in the middle of the page between the texts, this would be a image of who the magazine is mostly based on in that issue and would contain direct address, this would invite the reader in. I layed the text out at either size of the page, therefore it would be split up, so the reader doesnt have just a long list of text, the will draw the reader in to read more, and would be easier for them to scim the text to find articles that interest them.