I ♥ S F - Magazine Front Cover

For the preliminary task, we were asked to create the front page for a school/college magazine.


To help us achieve the right photo for our magazines, we had Alex Walton come in to give us an introduction into techniques for taking photos, and getting the right shot. He is a photographer who works for Archant.


He spoke about all the different things you have to consider to get a really good photo for a magazine cover and I learned a lot. 
One thing that I learned was that most magazines have the name of the magazine on the left hand side of the cover, this is so that when it is stacked on the shelf, the name won't be hidden to potential customers. Therefore when we took our photo, we made sure that there was a reasonable space along the left hand side of the photo, so that we could add any text, and the title to the cover.


To make our magazine stand out, I used the bold red boxes to highlight the text with the magazine features, however it doesn't take away from the main image. 
The reason we chose this image out of all the others we had taken, was because it showed the school element with the text books piling up, but also because it shows the stress a 6th form student might be going through. With the facial expressions and the fact there are a lot of books in this shot, helps to draw the target audience in, as they can relate to it, and therefore would want to read the magazine.
We also wanted to try to make it appealing to the age group, with an interview with the current artist Wretch 32, who would be inspiring and helpful with the information included. This lures the audience in, as well as the competition we have included where you can win an Ipad 2.