Preliminary Front Cover

I first starting producing my mock-up front cover by opening my main image in Adobe Photoshop. I chose to add brightness to the image specifically in order to make it stand and and to make it seem as if the student was a celebrity and this was a paparazzi shot with her hand up trying to get them to go away. This is important because it gives this ordinary school magazine the fell as if it is a realy celebrity magazine with celebritys and lots of interesting stories. This is make students want to buy it more than if it was an ordinary magazine with a boring main image. After editing the image, I moved on to Adobe Illustrator and began to add the text.

I thought of the name of the title as the alliteration holps for the students to remember the name of it and subliminally make them want to buy it. I also applied the use of alliteration and the use of colour to the headlines as they both help for the students to notice and remember it with the red standing out from the page and catches your eye, The rest of the text is in a gray-ish colour to match the main image as the student is wearign a gray t-shirt. This works well ass the colours match but also they stand out with the use of red. I finally chose to add a competition at the bottom which targets what students these days would want, an iPod, and draw them in by talking about this making them want to read more for the chance to win.

By Harry Luke Mulvany