Preliminary Front Cover

As a starter to get used to using photoshop, we had to create a school magazine for our own school. Ive realised that this isn't a very good cover for a number of reasons like layout, images and so on. Firstly I find the magazine very boring and doesn'treally have anything to it. The images looked like they have just been placed anywhere like the on of mr Garrick in the right hand corner, if you look closely the bit of the background under his arm hadn't been rubbed out so it is still showing a section of the background. The main image looks as if it has just been put anywhere, it does't have anything to it like effects, blending, drop background, nothing. You also cannot tell by the main image who the actual exchange student is, nothing on the magazine is telling which one of the girls the main headline is talking about. There are also no big standing out headlines on my magazine front cover, nothing to draw the reader into reading it. Also the Goffs logo is in the wrong place there wasn't enough room next to the title to put it in the right hand corner so I had to put it below the title which doesn't look right and doesn't flow well. Another problem I found was the the headlines under my images are not eye catching, although they have blue boxes around the text, it doesn't look interesting to read it has no effects on it and the style of this magazine is too like a poster format as i also do not have a barcode to even show it is a magazine you can buy. So all of this doesn't give the reader a good impression when they first see the magazine cover. However, not everything on my product is bad for example the actual images are clear and if i made the main image go across most of the page and put the other two smaller images in a box it would have looked a lot better, just because they're quite small it doesn't give the same effect. Also the Respect, Confidence and Achievement is very simple however I like it because its straight to the point and goes well on a school magazine.