Production of my school magazine front cover.

I used Adobe Photoshop to complete my front cover, I included images that I had took around school, and I then added text, including the masthead and quotes from interviews. To make it stand out I used a bold strip of colour underneath the bottom bar of text. I also used a blue and purple colour scheme as this is the schools colour scheme.

 This is the blank page of where I first began to make my front cover. I have shown what I did to complete my front cover in step by step images.

 Firstly I included my main images. I included them first so I could base the other parts of my front cover, including headings around my main images, as the images are firstly what draws the target audience to the magazine.

 I then added my masthead. As this is the main part of the text, and the one that people recognise and as it stands out the most, I put it on the top of the front cover so people immediately could see it.

 I then added my barcode and some information around it, including issue number and price.

 After that, I added some subheadings and labels to the images. I made the subheadings relatively interesting and to not give too much away about the said article or interview.

 I then added some more text and a bottom bar of text, which had a block of colour under it to make it stand out. I kept this block of colour suited to my colour scheme.

I then added some more text, including a quote from an interview for the main story in the magazine. I also added a star with a catchy phrase in, which said 'start of term special 2011' I made this stand out to show that this magazine is the start of term special, which could again make people want to buy it more, as it is a 'special edition' magazine.