Change of photo

As we stared to make our cover we looked back on the brief and realised that we had been told that our picture had to be of a student in a medium close up shot, which ours was not. We then had to crop our photo which now did not fit the background so added another above it. This is then what our magazine looked like:

We did not like this cover but had to present it to our class as there was no more time to edit it. This is some of the feed back we got:

• Having two images was bad as you do not know which to look at and your eyes should be drawn to one thing.
• The mast head should not cover the persons head as this looks untidy.
• It is not obvious who the target audience is from this cover.
• There is no articles or features to make you want to pick up this magazine.

We agreed with all of the points so decided to start the cover again. This time we did not disagree with each other on as many things so we were able to make the cover quickly.

Our photo is again a simple photo, but we think that this makes it stand out more, and with the grey background the girl is the first thing you look at. This is the photo was used:

We cropped our photo to fit the cover but found the top did not reach the top of the page, we did not want to stretch the image so we cut a part of the background and copied it to place on above the photo to fill the space.