Analysing finished school magazine cover

 Main Image

With the main image i tired to recreate what i had created on my draft magazine cover by having the back of a boy's head,I decided to use a fellow classmate due to him having short hair which was idea for my main image,it then transfer it to Photoshop to get rid of the background so it was plain white so the focus was on him, but with Music magazine,they never have the person the are featuring facing away from the camera and so when making my music magazine,my artist would be facing the camera

 Start of cover

Also taking from my draft of the school magazine cover,I have inserted yellow footer bars at the top and bottom of the magazine so that it could also extra information that would be included in the fake school magazine, I then transfer the photo of my classmate into Indesign where I was making my school magazine cover,after inserting it in,I reconfigure it so that it was larger and was more on the cover,after doing so,i create a black bar which would hold my Masthead and Pug,the magazine cover now starting to resemble my draft

Development of Cover

After creating the Pug and black bar,I start to fill out the footer bars and Pug with information about the magazine,having the Pug tell the reader what's in a part of the magazine and the footer bar holding information about joining the Newspaper committee as that might interest reads of it,I then inserting lines after filling out the top footer bar and pug to mark out where i would put sell lines to get rid of blank space,I've also decreased the size of the footer bars so it would fit more of the main image on

It was time for me to create my Masthead and so I opened the application Photoshop to create it,after spending a while on it, I came up with this design but I came upon a problem which was a soon as i inserted it into Indesign, I had to manipulate it for it to fit properly on the cover,having to squish the image so that it would work for me, and so next time i have decided rather than trying to make a fancy design in Photoshop,it would be easier to do it in Indesign with the same amount of quality,after dealing with the Masthead,I pull several boxes along the lines where i would actually put the sell lines

Whilst during the time i took to photograph my main image, i also collected a subsidiary image and decided that i would use that during making the sell lines,to make it seem part of the magazine,I enter photoshot and place boarders around it so it wasn't a floating picture

Finished school magazine cover

This is my final product from my time using Indesign and Photoshop, and i had made some changes such at the sell lines being blue text with a weak black shroud along with my Splash,taken from my draft,with yellow text so i would standout and the strong black shroud around it helped significantly