When creating my sixth form magazine front cover, I found my flat plan was a lot of help during the process. I found it helped me because I had spent my time thinking about the layout and general appearance features, and how I wanted the magazine front cover to look when complete already when sketching my flat plan. So in theory, all I had to focus on was taking an appropriate photo, and transferring my ideas from my plan onto photoshop.
As you can see, my original plan for my main photo was to have a group of two girls and one boy (to portray the mixed gender sixth form) sitting on a bench with the symbolic yellow brick road (path to success and greatness). Unfortunately, this didn't abide by the general conventions of a sixth form magazine, as the photo had to be a mid-shot. So, after the photo-shoot (where I photographed various people from my class who I felt could represent the school, in various 'everyday sixth form situations'), I carefully looked through each of my pictures and decided to choose the one that you can now see on the front cover. Maybe I should have chosen a female model for my main front cover photo, as the majority of students who attend SHSG sixth form are female.
I also decided to change the font of the masthead, as I felt the one I used for my plan was too plain and boring when I created it on the computer and compared it to other possible fonts I could use.
I also decided to make the red space for the subheadings more transparent so that it didn't completely mask the left side of the image, whereas in the plan I envisioned it to be more of an opaque red.
Other than that, I feel I have stuck to my plan and my final product looks fairly similar, which I am pleased with.
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