Research of front covers

This is an example of a medium close up in other words 3/4. I will be using this shot for my front cover as it's conventional. Medium close up is important for the audience to be able to see the facial expressions. The happy facial expression will appeal to the audience a lot because if the student looks happy, If the student looks happy then it automatically gives the connotation of a good college.

Brief

Preliminary Exercise; Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of new school/college magazine featuring a photograph of a student in medium close up plus some appropriate-laid out text and a masthead.Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task; The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine all images and text must be original produced by you- minimum of four images.