Drawn magazine front cover draft.

Using my photos I took this week and the understanding of magazine front covers I have created a draft of what my school magazine front cover may look like.

I decided to use one of the mastheads that I created before as I feel this font, colouring and name is appropriate for my targeted audience. The use of colours will contrast with the white background to stand out and look more appealing. I also feel that the name of the masthead has a basic but sophisticated connotation. This is due to knowing some newspapers with similar names. However the use of shortening Plantsbrook to 'PB' will be more attractive to the younger audience.

With my strap line, I used the slogan that the school uses 'Be the best that you can be' This makes the magazine seem more personal as no other school has this slogan, therefore the magazine front cover shows that the magazine is for Plantsbrook students only.

I decided to have a close up shot of the school entrance as the main image. This also has a eye leveled angled shot, this is to show that you would be looking directly at the school. I feel using this image will make the audience feel comfortable as this is something they see on a daily basis.
Also as it is not a portrait I didn't feel that it would be vital to use the rule of thirds as you do not need to see every single part of the image as the audience would know exactly what it is. I feel that using the whole front cover to place my main image makes it look busy so the audience feel there is a lot of information that they can read inside. If I were to take this photo for my front cover, I would include some people on the front with a direct mode of address to ensure the engagement of the audience. It would also bring more familiarity to the audience.
The cover line of 'Goodbye old build' is something that is the most recent news, therefore it would be the most addressed article. It is also the biggest news as it will create a big change to the school so I feel that the audience should know more about this than anything else. Also having used this as a coverline can help to address a mass audience instead of just the school students. This is because local citizens that may want their child to attend this school, may want to know about this information. Also using the tagline 'Travel through the memories of the old Plantsbrook building as we say hello to our new build' can be considered emotive language as memories can be a connotation to emotions that students may feel as this school has been a big part of their childhood. It also helps create a synopsis of what the main article will be about.


Next I have used a number of different sell lines to help attract the audience. I have decided to use different sell lines to help target different specific years, for example I have created sell lines for the year 11's by giving information on GCSE results to see which subject did the best. I have also tries to target different years as enrichment is offered to all years, therefore different students from different years can see exactly what enrichment the school is offering for them.These would be in similar but different fonts on my final idea so that they could appeal more to the audience, if the coverlines for younger audiences were more cartoon like and the coverlines for older audience, such as year 11's would be more structured and mature looking.


If I had to improve this for a second draft I would experiment with different main images and maybe create different sell lines to help attract a bigger audience. I would also use different fonts to make the front cover look less boring.
In addition I would try to emphasize the colour scheme to show off the 3 colours I have chosen. But when I do my final draft it will be on the computer so I can choose from a variety of different shades to which will be more suitable.