Construction of Prelim Task

 

When I took the picture for my front cover, I knew that I wanted to take out the background on my photo so we went outside to use the sky as a background and have natural light. Unfortunately the light wasn't fantastic and my photos were fairly dark. However as I was brightening the photograph, it made the background a lot easier to take out and brought out their faces and the colours as well. It also became a lot clearer that they were smiling which gives the impression that they are happy at their sixth form and that it's clearly a good place.

With regards to the composition, I was happy with the amount of space around them, that was then used for anchorage text and so on. If I were to take the picture again, I would have had less white space around them. Although it is a medium close up of the front two girls, it isn't of the back two girls. It was difficult to manage four people in a photograph but I would arrange them differently in a way that got all of them in the photograph, with space around, but it would be a medium close up of them all.
My time management and organisation of people was satisfactory, however I think I should have made sure that all the girls in my photo were wearing their Pass' to show that they were college students.

I cropped the picture that I used here to make it more of a medium close up and enlarged the picture and their direct gaze was more defined. 

On the magazine I made sure that my anchorage text stood out by putting grey banners behind the text. Just like with the main title on the magazine, I placed a banner around the more important word which is 'outstanding'.
Overall I was pleased with the very little amount of white space on my magazine, however due to the shape of the picture it left me with a section above their heads which if I were to improve on my magazine cover, I would make sure to fill that in.
I thought the banner across the bottom of my magazine, underneath the main title, was organised and not overbearing but still included all the articles in the magazine that I wanted to showcase.

I carried the house style on through to the Contents Page so that I could make the mast head smaller as I am not trying to attract the readers attention any longer. I have also written 'contents' in the same style to show to the reader that it's the title.
I especially liked the speech marks in the bottom right which really made the statement itself a lot more presentable and eye-catching. The font throughout the page is generally smaller because the reader will have already started reading the page, it also made a lot of space to put relevant photographs in to tempt to the reader to continue reading.

After looking at style models of other school magazines, I thought that the Headteacher's Termly Report was an important feature to have on the front page as it shows the reader that the Headteacher has a lot of interest in the school and everything that goes on and is happy to give his feedback.