Chloe Bowen: Preliminary construction

Front Cover: Photoshop

I took a photo of Daniel playing the saxophone and used the lasso tool to crop around him and plot him onto a plain copper coloured background which I got from google.
and then i added photos which I took of the new year 7's while in performing arts. I faded each photo by using 'opacity' and that was the background completed. I had to bring the photo of Daniel to the front so he was centre of attention.
I then used the type tool to add my heading. the font is in black, and its faded with opacity just like the rest of the background.
I also added the schools slogan which is 'life in all it's fullness'. this is also written in black Ariel font.
and then I just flattened the layers together to form one photo so it would allow me to upload to my blog.

I used an ordinary photo of a school as my main image, so this indicates what the school will look like, and to hopefully give the impression that it was very important to the magazine.
I decided to put the school logo in the top right corner as this is what I've seen in many of the school magazines I've been analysing. I think having the logo at the top applies to any type of magazine.
I added photos of already existing students that looked hard at working or that looked very happy to be there. This makes the readers believe that its a good school and does its job.
A white background was ideal for a school contents page as I thought it wouldn't interfere with any of the photos or font.

I used two photos from prom that were different sizes to make it more fun and different. I also put 5 stars in the centre so that the readers will believe that prom can be a top event.
I used speech bubbles that students have said about the event so that its reliable evidence of a good night. I did this with my contents page too and so i followed through with the same theme.
The bottom right banner shows that the schools holds competitions, and that they promote past winners very well.