The last few days i have been continuing my preliminary exercise by starting my contents page i decided to not cut out the background because the background of the picture i chose made the picture more effective and made the picture look more relevant for what it was about. I worked with different fonts and different sizes whilst checking which font looked better for a contents page and the style of my magazine. I used the main picture as a teaser for inside the magazine by using it as a page number about exam results. I then started naming my pages down the side of my page but realized the writing was not clear enough against the background so i put a bow behind it that was grey and changed the opacity so it wasn't as bold and the writing was shown clearly on top of it.
Carrying on with my preliminary exercise i started working towards a front cover of a school magazine. I decided to keep it quite simple with not to much on it because it was a school magazine and needs to be quite clean to look more professional although i did make the background white but changed the opacity so you can faintly see what's happening in the background. I decided not to take the background so it didn't differ to much from my contents page and tried to make it give off the same kind of style. I added some different effects to the writing such as dropping the shadow and giving the writing an outer glow to make the school motto stand out. Here is the picture before i made it my front cover and below the picture is my finished design.
