To make my front cover, first I took lots of pictures of students in different poses that would relate to a school magazine, this included; reading books, writing, typing and walking. After I took the pictures I chose one to be the main picture on my front cover, this turned out to be an over-the-shoulder shot of a male student reading in the library.
I didn't like the background at this point so I desaturated it out, but I still wasn't happy with it so I deleted it and started to make my own background. I used different brushes to make bubbles and smoke effects on the page.
For the title I made a list of possible names and chose the one I felt was most fitting. The name I finally chose was 'WGSB Review', this is because it works well as a formal title for the type of magazine I wanted to make. I chose a font that I liked and used the FX to make it stand out, I added the school's emblem to the center to complete it.
I then added the cover lines and the date to help create the final look for the cover. At first I used double punctuation marks (!!, !?, ??) to add emphasis to the cover lines but it took away from the formality of the rest of the cover so I decided to leave them single.




This is the cover that I have designed so far. I was unsure which background to use as the one on the far left uses colours taken from the school badge but the one on the right has a higher contrast of colours. Eventually I decided to get opinions from others and go with the majority vote. The first background was chosen by the majority of the sample as it also brings out the text about the main story.