Preliminary Task

The preliminary task was to do a school magazine,to produce it i had to use my own photos and use my own unique style .To make the magazine have a good layout i had to use consistency so the contents would match the front cover e.g keeping same colour scheme text font etc .

The first thing i had to decide for this task was the name , i had loads of ideas but they did'nt seem to sound right for a school magazine, so i chose wilmington Report .The reason i think this title is successful is because its basic and it is what the magazine provides students a report of things happening at school .

To design the magazine i used Adobe Photoshop , this gave me access to use any effects i wanted , One effect you will see that i used is drop shadow on the small picture of the snooker player (Rishan) i did this to make the image eye catching.I also used transparency on my bold gold boxes for my headlines, i did this because if transparency was 100 percent then you would'nt be able to see most of my image chosen for the background making the magazine look like a a page with loads of blocks.

The main colour scheme for my school magazine was the school colours (gold,navy blue and baby blue ), i thought what colours are better then the own schools.By picking these colours i feel that the magazine represents the school brand.

I believe this contents page has shown consistency with the magazines format, i personally like my idea of getting photos then adding white squares behind them to make them look like photographs.Instead of writing contents page i chose to put "Whats inside" ,the reason i chose to do this is because when reading the heading that is the readers question .To make sure the contents age was easy to read i used yellow block to separate the page from the page numbers so the reader can easily read the story lines.