Firstly I made a flat plan to sketch my ideas for the front page and contents. Now that I have finished my front cover, the picture has changed from the original flat plan idea, however I managed to keep the masthead the same, the teasers and the black and red colour scheme. The angle of gaze for my cutout is a medium shot. The student in my front cover is sitting down outside smiling while revising, my main reason for this is to re-assure students looking to study A levels that A levels are not as stressful as they imagine or have heard it to be. I have used the black and red colour scheme because it represents the colour of NMBEC's logo. I have used the font "Felix Titling" for the teasers which is a serif font; giving the effect of making the text look smart and easy to read. I used the "vrinda" font for the text underneath which is san serif making it distinguishable against the teaser titles. For the actual photo taken, I hardly edited it since the lighting was very good, all I done was adjust the brightness and contrast to make the colours stronger to stand out to the reader. At the bottom of the front cover I added a tag line at the bottom which read "It's New, It's Young, It's You!" which i felt could help the reader to understand the magazine is new and who the magazine is directed at; young people such as themselves. I like the finished result of my magazine, it has got alot of eye catching features and the colour scheme works.
My flat plan for the contents page and the finished result are very similar, I have carried out my idea of having an extra long shot of two students walking underneath the canopy. I have also made sure that the picture is only along the right hand side of the page, not actually taking up the whole of the page so that I can have space for the page title's and numbers etc... In photoshop I have cropped down the picture to get rid of anything disturbing the picture e.g bins, but also I have cropped it so that the supporting wooden beams create a sort of pattern. I have made the picture black and white apart from the students and the words at the top reading "IT WILL ECHO". I have done this so that the picture does not look too busy, also to help the students stand out. The Title "CONTENTS" is also in "Felix Titling" font and is red (as well as the page numbers) so that it matches the front page. I have made use of the two pictures I took with the camera in the common room, I edited them separately making a white border to stand out from the black and white extra long shot picture on the side. The background behind the text on the side is of a notebook page and the page titles are in "Lucida Handwriting", I have done this so that it can relate to work and/or revision.
