Preliminary Task: Front Cover

This is a print screen of a magazine front cover called ‘The Bishop Star’, which I have created for sixth formers at Bishop Challoner. I will be explaining how I produced the magazine and pointing out ways, in which it could be improved. For the production of my magazine, I used Adobe Illustrator CS3; I also used Adobe Photoshop CS3 for the editing of images. I made use of a variety of tools such as, magnetic tool, marquee tool, magic wand and type tool. Furthermore, from looking at the magazine, I can see that there are several ways in which it could be improved. For example, the main image looks quite normal and plain, in which I could airbrush the image to make it look more appealing. Moreover, I think that the colours used on my magazine are not very bold, therefore does not make the front cover stand out at all; this could easily be improved by using bold colours so that it would appeal to the target audience more. Also, I could add some ‘puffs’ and some ‘buzz words’ to make the magazine look more professional and appealing to the reader.