The document summarizes the design process for magazine covers and contents pages for a school magazine. For the front cover, the student used selection tools to cut out the school logo and set the title in a bold gothic font flush left. A photo was chosen that related to the magazine's demographic and an article on the school dress code. Feedback suggested adding more photos and text to fill space and make the design more interesting. For the contents page, a background image and two font colors were used alongside page numbers, but negative space and inconsistent formatting and colors were issues raised.

1. School Magazine
Chrissie Gibson 12R

2. The masthead is related
to the school logo, as it
looks like a waffle.
Includes a puff
to emphasise the
magazine
Includes a feature article
photo that relates to the
information within the
school magazine.
Plug giving some
information about the
contents of the
magazine
Includes cover
lines for major
article.
Includes a
magazine logo
from the school.
I used the eraser tool, the magic wand
tool and the magnetic lasso tool to cut
out the William de Ferrers logo.
I used a certain typography
“copperplate gothic bold” in white
and made sure the text was flush left.
I used a photograph which enhances the
magazines style and refers to the
demographic of the magazines
characteristics which is aimed at year
12 and 13 students informing them
about the dress code which is familiar
to them.
The background to the photograph is also a
demographic as the surrounding are very
familiar to the school and shows that it is aimed
at the school age.

3. Negative comments
There is a lot of negative space on
the front cover.
I would improve this by adding
fillers to the front cover to fill up
space.
The typography and the colour
of the text is all the same.
Use more than one font and change
the colour of the text to make it
more interesting and so it suits the
background or feature article photo
so the text is still visible.
There are no other photographs on
the front cover which creates
negative space.
Add more photos to the front cover
making sure they relate to the articles in
the magazine.
There are no cover lines or headlines to
give information about the magazine.
Add in cover lines and headlines to the front
cover.

4. Includes a title for
contents page which
relates to the
magazine headline
and title.
Has information
about the articles
inside the
magazine.
Includes the William
de Ferrer's name and
logo to show it is the
school magazine.
I got a picture off the internet to
use as the background and
merged it into the layer.
I used a certain typography
“copperplate gothic bold”
and used two different
colours for font, white and
black.
I included the page
number references
so people can find
the pages they are
looking to read.

5. Negative comments
There is a lot of negative
space.
The overall design of the page
needs more pictures for effect
and needs to be placed in a
different format.
The coloured background
does not suit the house style
or colour scheme.
There should be a wider
variety of contents page
numbers and there should be
a variety in text giving some
more information to be put on
to the contents page.
There should be a conventional
colour scheme that matches the
front cover and carries on
throughout the magazine.