Preliminary task- STACS Sixth form

Here is my preliminary task which was to create a front cover for a school magazine. I choose to target my magazine at sixth form students as you can vary with more sophisticated topics as they would be understanded. I made it colourful to make it asthetically pleasing and make it stand out from possible other school magazines. Some of the cover lines are a bit over the top  but i have still made them relevent to the topic of school. I have included both a puff and a pug keeping within the conventions of magazines. Also, I have a masthead, celebrity endorsement, coverlines, barcode, dateline etc. Including all these things allows my mockup to become more realistic and life like meaning that more students will want to buy it.

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This magazine cover is more for the hip hop genre, which means colour can be introduced more and also the topics are more varied; celebrity, make up, fashion etc. A type of celebrity endorsement has been used here also with direct mode of addres where as the celebrity (Lady Gaga) is looking at the camera. This is good because its a way of connecting with the viewer.

Pitch

On this cover, i tried to relate the font and colours to typical heavy metal magazines. I used straight font then a more messy font to show an uneven look. The colour conotations i used were red and black because they relate to the topic of dark, death, dull, creepy etc.

Freedom- The big brother issue.

I found this front cover design quite difficult to add to because of the strippy background. It was more difficult to get colours to stand out on it meaning they dont look as efective as they should do. This in my opinion does not work well as a magazine cover.

Film X

I decided to keep the coverline simple. I think 'do or die' is short and is relevent to the creepy image on the background. If i was to inlcude loads of cover lines it would take away from the image and not be as effective. The colours used are very dark and sinister which is a good use of colour connotation. As it again relates to the context the magazine is under.

Practice school contents page

This again is another practice draft for my school magazine. This being the contents page. I included relevent topics and images.

Practice School magazine front cover.

Here is my first draft attempt of my school magazine. I included the head teacher, a few cover lines which are school based and also a relatable masthead.