• To start with I didn't enjoy working on this task because I wasn't comfortable with working with Photoshop as I had little experience on how to use it, but once I got the hang of it I started to see how I could develop my magazine cover in a number of ways to make it look professional.

Firstly, I decided to do my magazine based on science as I felt I could bring a wide range of ideas to the magazine. I started out by taking a picture of Edward lighting a bunsen burner but making it seem far more dramatic than it actually was. I took a number of different shot of this to decide how i wanted to shoot the angle and later decided on my chosen image. I found it difficult deciding how to choose, as i thought the image that i did choose would be too difficult for my skills of editing - because of the person that was in the way of the image i wanted to capture of the flame. Initially i decided against this image but after some thought and encouragement, I went with my gut feeling.

• After this, I jotted down some ideas of how to name and what could be involved on my front cover. Some ideas for titles I came up with were: Extremisci, Extremi-Sci, Science for the extreme, Sciextreme, ( As you can tell they all seemed to revolve around similar titles) But finally I decided with 'Extreme Science' as it felt stronger, and easier for the viewer to understand what would be involved in the magazine. I think that this was a good choice as it makes it seem more eyecatching and the design of the title is well refered both to the image, and idea of the magazine in mind. The title also could seem quite persuasive as it has the expanding mist around the letters which connotates following the same thought of fire, and explosions therefore complimenting the image of the large flame, aswell as the connotations of Edwards facial expression.

• There wasn't a lot of blank space in the image as the flame took up quite a lot of space but I managed to use the top left hand corner to advertise inside pages I think reasonably well. For the writing, I felt I didn't need too complex font as the audience that I would be aiming towards, generally, wouldn't be very creative and artistic and would be more interested in straight forward facts and figures etc. Following this thought, I decided to go with straight forward subtitles to lure the reader in (refering to inside pages) which are related to my target audience. I feel I did this well.

• Overall, I am happy with the outcome of my school magazine, however I think that my actual cover image could have been more suited to lure the reader in because the image is not face on, therefore not as eye-catching as it could have been. So overall I have learned a lot from this exercise. Also my use of Photoshop has improved however I still know I have a lot to learn!