School Magazine

Firstly i have created a school magazine front cover. Myself and Katie Oakham went out with a camera to take appropriate photos to us for the cover of my magazine, these had to be either of the school, pupils or teachers. i took a number of photos from different view points, from portrait to landscape. some of the photos i took were of students and staff just going about their daily routines. once i had taken many photos i took them back to media to look at them and choose which pictures i would use and bring into mind the quality, focus and how appropriate they were to a school magazine. i finally decided to use a picture of a girl i had taken, then i imported the photo into photoshop and cleaned up the picture with the use of tools like the healing brush, and the magic wand tool to take out any imperfections and any focus issues with the photo, i took out the red eye that happened when the photo was taken to make it look much more professional. i used the whole picture as a background and main image of my front cover, i began to put into the masthead and cover lines and sell lines. to find the specific look of the font that i was looking for i went onto www.dafont.com where i found a suitable main font that i used on the front cover. i decided to name the magazine LTA News as i wanted the magazine to be informative about events in the school but not too formal. My strap line was "celebrating excellence all day everyday" i thought that this coincided with the motto of the academy  which was "Act Enterprisingly, Work In Partnership, Achieve Excellence."  For my strap line i used a different Font to make it stand out also i used a different colour to the colour of the masthead and sub headings which was a green i used instead a yellow to these stand out, to make the word excellence stand out again i used a different colour which was a purple. I put LTA Team down the side to make the template for the advertisement of  stories inside the magazine.i used drop shadow on the fonts to make them stand out and to also make them look much more professional and also outer glow to make them stand out more. i used the Leigh Academy logo to emphasize the fact that this is a school magazine and again put drop shadow on this and a green tint to make it stand put again but also to coincide with the colour of the fonts.