PRELIMINARY EXERCISE:

This is my preliminary exercise and this was the front page of a school magazine.

 I used various colors and fonts. I highlighted the words so that would have a greater impact on the audience. My target audience would be teenage girls, the color scheme I used is mostly pink, red and sparkly attracting the girls. My cover story, which is "GEEKY WITH STYLE" reflects the main image of the cover page; of the girl holding the book with glasses on giving her a geeky look, whereas, her makeup and her hairstyle gives a sense of style.

My masthead is "SCHOOL BUZZ" which clearly indicates that it's a school magazine. The plug saying "Free makeup" that would attract the girls, obviously. The titles and the sub-titles I used in my cover are all related to things that a girl would be interested in, for example; a boy won't be interested in makeup or gossips or they don't even want to get involved in any drama, Boys hate it!

Summing it all up, This was the first ever piece I created out of Photoshop gathering all the essentials documents required and came up with the final product for my preliminary exercise.