School Magazine and Evaluation

This is my final cover of my school magazine.
It is the first thing that I ever made on photoshop and it took me a long time to get to grips with how everything works. I decided to call it 'The Class' due to it being a school magazine, I thought that readers would understand what it was about just by the name. I chose the font for the magazine as I thought that it was like an American high school football club font - linking to the school theme of the magazine.
This is one of the fonts that I experimented with before the final decision.

I wanted my school mag to be a drama based issue and that's why I chose the picture that I did, this is a picture from a musical that our sixth form and school joined together to present called 'The Groovy Magic Love Show', it was set in the sixties and that's why the people in the picture are dressed like this. I chose this long shot picture that has all their bodies in because I thought that it showed the costumes well, which is what I wanted, yet they are all still looking at the camera, drawing people to look at the magazine.
As the play was set in the sixties I chose to do all the font colours in bright colours linking to the era. also the font in which 'Groovy Magic Love Show' is written in I think links to the sixties period.
This is another font that I experimented with, I really liked it and thought that it was brilliant from the theme that I was trying to get across but unfortunately I couldn't work out how to paste it into photoshop without ruining the size and pixels of it, so I settled for the one that I now have which I think works just as well.

The 'sell lines' on my magazine are things that I think pupils would want to read about in a school mag, the prom, trips and I have also written about a review on the show. I chose to write it in informal language as I felt that pupils would not want to read it if it was formal.
If I could do this cover again it would be a lot better as I am more confident with photoshop now, see music magazine, and I feel that I would be more adventurous with how I laid it out. I do this that my school mag is eye catching and that people would want to read it.