Preliminary Task Front Cover

I have designed the front cover of my version of a school newsletter. I have chosen this certain layout for different reasons, and also the images, font style and motto.

I chose the name “Negus Express” because the news that is shown in the newsletter is fresh and quick, it would also be of interest to the students because the stories involve them. Also the newsletter being handed out at a designated time regularly is like a small service within school, and it involves people working on the newsletter to get it ready for students to read. The font I chose it to be in looks like it’s been written, maybe by a student, which represents the students that study at the school, and how they write a lot in class.

Below the masthead, I put the date and issue number. I put the issue number on the left, and the date on the right, it has been neatly aligned. The reason I have aligned these neatly is to represent the students at school, being organised and ready to work and do well. I have also designed a motto and placed it within a banner, the motto being “Happy to Help”, which would be seen as quite friendly and welcoming, like the students of the school can go up to someone and ask for help with something and not feel intimidated by students or teachers.

I have then featured two main stories on the front of the newsletter. The first story “Plans prepared for Wickham” and the second story “Friday is treat day!” The first story being more important and informing the school about changes that are going to happen, which would make them happier and have a better environment to work in. The second story is just something to entertain the students and encourage them to eat in the canteen, which could mean students are eating less junk outside of school at lunch times, making food in school more exciting and likeable. I made the title of each story bold, underlined and black, with large font size. This makes the headlines stand out to the intended audience. The article font is smaller and purple, which ties in with the colour scheme of the newsletter, as the colour scheme is pastel green, pastel purple and white, with the headlines being in black. I have chosen this colour scheme as it’s quite relaxing, as the students are hard worked a lot of the time, from pressure of exams and course work.

I used an image of the school student room for the first article to display where the students go at the moment to do work, and the article was saying how it’s going to be improved. The second image is a medium shot of the school dinner lady looking quite happy. The article is about the food and how it’s changing which has a lot to do with the dinner ladies as they’re the ones who prepare all of the food for the students.