Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task i had to create a school magazine front cover and contents page that was aimed at students from John Cabot. I used a school digital camera to take a midshot of a student for the front cover of my magazine and used photoshop to create my magazine.

I chose a simple name for my school magazine 'Cab Mag' and used a website called dafont.com to create my masthead.

To go along with the typical magazine layout I have also added a barcode, date, price and issue number to make it more realistic.

I used basic colours on the magazine so it didn't look too over crowded on the page. The band of colour which i have used to make the 'First Issue' stand out is the same colour as the John Cabot uniform so that students can relate more to it.

I created my contents page using photoshop as well. I used the same colour schemes on my contents page to what i used on my front cover. This made sure that i would stick to similar colour schemes throughout my music magazine that i am going to produce.