Preliminary Front Cover

For my preliminary I had to create a magazine front cover and contents page for a school magazine.

I used a student as the main image as she has the 'John Cabot Academy' uniform on so this links the costume with the magzine and intended audience- students. The masthead is 'CABOT'. I placed it at the top of the magazine in a aqua colour to link with the jumper the model is wearing. I also carried the aqua colour throughout the magazine with the stories on the from. I used a tag line 'EXCLUSIVE we talk to Grace about her day as reception assistant' as most magazines have a link from the main image to a story. I used white font as blue and white work together and they are easy on the eye. They also link with the uniform. At the top I placed 'issue no.4' to make it look realistic and also adding in the price and date at the bottom. I used a barcode from google so it looked realistic when compared with other magazines. Different sized font was used to make certain words stand out. Also, space was left to reveal the John Cabot Academy logo on the shirt. Grace(my model) is also making direct adress with the audience so that people pay attention to the magazine.