This is my completed Preliminary task of my school magazine front cover. I decided to adopt a clean professional image to keep with the school prospectus such as clean and light colours which are the school's colours and the ideology which ensures its easily recognisable to the school. For Mise en scene I chose to make the image brighter to enhance the image quality. I chose to let the picture speak for the words instead of overloading the picture with text. I thought that adding the school badge and the advertisement "Specalist Science College" would be good advertisement for the School.

I found that this content page of the "Q" magazine is set out in a very good manor. It is appealing to the audience by ordering the page in a very clear way. I chose to use a Q magazine content page as it states it is "the world's biggest and best music magazine" This is a good way to intrigue readers into frequently buying the magazine.

NME Content Page

My first content page that i have chosen to analyse is from NME. I thought this would be a good choice to analyse as it is one of the most famous music magazines.

Rolling Stone's Magazines

These two covers for the Rolling Stone magazine are all very different apart from the masthead which is very distinctive and to this day still remains in the same font. What i find particularly interesting about these covers is how they have changed over the year. Although the masthead still remains generally the same on the cover featuring Michael Jackson shows the full masthead whereas on the Chris Martin cover the masthead is placed behind the image of the singer who dominates the cover as you can only see the "roll" in rolling and "tone" in stone.

On the Michael Jackson cover the colours seem to be similar and blend in well with the rest of the magazine. It is also very simplistic as it does not feature any other puffs that are not about Michael Jackson on the front cover. This simplifies what features within the magazine as the reader is not given any other information.

On the other Rolling Stone cover which features Chris Martin, singer of Coldplay, The front cover of this is very different and allot more intriguing as it has many puffs all around the cover. The writing used for the puffs look they are serif fonts. They stand out as the background is white and the writing is generally black. However even though they are bold they are not very colourful and intriguing as they possibly could be.

Content page

This is my mock up of my content page. I have decided to use three pictures on the right hand side which will be a little preview of what will feature within the magazine. I thought that these pictures would be apropriate and helpful for the readers who will just be able to see what page they are interested in was on and intrigue them with the correct amount of information. I decided to do the content page right down the middle as it would stand out and look professional. I chose my final mock up by researching other content pages and seen which ones looked best and what types of puffs are generally used on them.

School Magazine picture.

This is the picture that I am choosing to use for my school magazine preliminary task. I have chosen to use this type of picture as I think it represents the school well especially with the background showing that the school have the proud honour this year of best examination results ever! I am planning on editing this photograph before I add it to my final front cover. The features that are in need of editing are the pieces of paper that we are holding as they are supposed to look like GCSE and A Level results but as we didn't have these we had to use other resources. Also the lighting is quite dark and dull so i plan to change the contrast.

This is my first draft of my preliminary task of year 12. We had to create a magazine front cover for our school magazine. The colours which i decided to choose are the original school colours. The reason for my background is because i felt it was neutral and not over the top but still looks appealing. I have chosen to use contemporary magazine features such as puffs which gave the magazine a more professional feel.