Preliminary task

Here, I have produced my preliminary task with the use of a image manipulating programme to form a school magazine front cover and contents page. For this task I used an original piece of photography with features a medium close up of a student with appropriately laid out text and an effective masthead. This task has helped me with the creation of my music magazine as I understand how significant the layout and colour scheme can be to the overall ethos of a magazine. I chose a simplistic layout to make it easier for my readers to find certain features and to also draw the readers attention towards the images.Additionally, the use of the red, black and white colour scheme is used as it represents the school colours, makes the front cover and contents page quite bold and stand out against other magazines and finally chose to use these three colours as when I did my questionnaire I had the majority of people say that they think it would be more effective if I use those colours.