Pre-lim School Magazine cover

This is my pre-lim magazine cover that we were asked to do, the theme for mine is a magazine directed at the entire school, possibly towards the older students, who are interested in the sporting achievements.

The CDI is that of one of the members of the schools basketball academy taken during a recent game that they played. The image has been edited to create a more contrasting, visually stimulating one that looks dramatic and yet it keeps the magazine unique and appealing to all age groups.

The schools colours, blue and yellow, helped create the colour scheme for the magazine, i later decided against the blue as it wasnt clear enough when the magazine was printed, the white on the other hand has the clarity and still retains the proffessional looking presentation overall. One thing that i would look at my cover and say needed changing would be the amount of text and the lack of variety on it, the fonts are all the same, the amount of text is too much and the sizing as well, apart from the bottom article, none of the articles jump out and make you want to read them, i feel that with less wording, different fonts and different sizes it would become a lot stronger visually. Overall i think that this cover is ok for a first attempt, now knowing what i do and having learnt a lot more about magazines i could go back and make a lot of changes to it so that it looks a lot more like a magazine and would appeal a lot more to the target market.