Creating My School Magazine Draft

 

This is my first draft off my school magazine. I had a few difficulties when first started creating my magazine; they were, inserting an image from google and change the text colour. However after researching online how to use Adobe InDesign, I now know how to use it.

I choose this colour scheme because it complements Christmas well, 'Red' and 'Green' are associated with Christmas. Whilst choosing this font I put into consideration that it needed to be bold to grab the readers attention, 'Myraid Pro'.

This is my second draft off my school magazine. I have added where I will insert my main image and main article. Although I found that I had some extra space near the bottom of the front page, so I will either add more images or an extra article, because I have not decided yet what to put there and I do not want it to be blank. I have also added '25th October, 2012' underneath the bar code, because this will be when the magazine would be released.

Whilst designing my magazine front cover I have took into consideration the 'Rule off the eye'. I'm doing this to attract the readers attention and make them want to buy the magazine, so when they look at the price they dont mind spending that much because they want to read it.

I have added background colours, to give the magazine more life and excitment. However I am not happy with it because, in my orignal draft it looked like the santa hat was being worn by the title, which I liked because it gave it an extra edge. The reason I cannot get the hat to overlap the title is because I got this image from google, which mieans it has an white background. I have tried on photoshop and paint to edit out the white background, but I have had no luck. Also i have move the main image and article around, because after taking and editing my image I have noticed that it would be more noticable and look more formated if I put it on the other side.

I have now added my front cover image, this took me awhile because the editing syste on InDesign is complex, I struggled to shrink the image to the size I needed without cropping the image. I moved the front cover image to the other side of the page because on the left of the images theres more off a gap, where the background of the quad is and the would look better next to all writing. I haven't positioned the writing or price yet, but I have added them in the same fon and design as the 'Christmas Issue'.

 

    

This is my final design for my school magazine. I have positionted all the text and added extra text to fill in the gaps. I have kept all the font the same style and colour, excluding the title. I don't like the fact that at the top is is white unlike the rest of my magazine, also I don't like that the zip code background is white as well. Although I like how I have added the Christmas theme into my magazine.