Here is my finished school magazine front cover. I added my logo as well as putting in some typical conventions of a published magazine. I decided to use two columns with a footer at the bottom because I didn't want to obscure the photo. I used quite simple font to advertise my features. I thought that anything too complicated would look too much with the logo and having seen other magazines such as NME, they keep their features font simple too. It is quite a simple layout but I really like the way it turned out.
I chose my font for my logo because it reminded me of an old American High School sports team logo which I thought looked very suited and i wanted to base my magazine around the idea of an American High School which is very centered around close community such as School Sports and Prom. I decided to use a colour scheme of pink and orange as I thought the colours went together well and used the orange to make certain words pop out against the black.If I were to change anything about my front cover I would have perhaps spent more time on editing the photo as I think it could have used a simple background and more brightness/contrast in photoshop.
Here is my contents page for my school magazine. I used the same pink as on the front cover, I wanted to pay close attention to this as I think it is important to keep the colour scheme constant in connecting these two pages so they flow together nicely.
I decided to keep my contents page quite clean. It would be more important to make subheadings if there were many more pages but as there are only 16 it is simple to locate things that you wish to read and I preferred the look of a simple text layout. For the photos I wanted students to be able to see picture that interested them and see a page number that instantly takes them to more information without having to flick through the magazine.
I quite like the way my contents looks but I think if i were to redo it I would change the purple background and possibly squeeze in a few more pictures by making a right hand column for them.
I decided to keep my contents page quite clean. It would be more important to make subheadings if there were many more pages but as there are only 16 it is simple to locate things that you wish to read and I preferred the look of a simple text layout. For the photos I wanted students to be able to see picture that interested them and see a page number that instantly takes them to more information without having to flick through the magazine.
I quite like the way my contents looks but I think if i were to redo it I would change the purple background and possibly squeeze in a few more pictures by making a right hand column for them.
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