Grapevine.

This magazine cover is for Marlwood School. This particular issue has quite a busy composition. The masthead is designed to suit the name of the magazine - the 'A' and 'V' are portrayed as a bunch of grapes. Also the 'i' is dotted with a grape. It is in a curvy, thin font but it stands out against the background. In the area that the masthead is, the background is the sky, which is white from the clouds so the masthead stands out against it. There are two captions altogether, one saying "Summer Edition 2008 Celebrating Achievements at Marlwood School". This caption is in an Arial, white font, being quite small. I think this caption could have been improved to make it more eye-catching and foregrounded. The other caption is in the bottom corner, inside a green circle: "Marlwood School" in a dark green, capital font whilst underneath there is the school slogan in a smaller font in red, "working together for excellence". There are four images altogether, the main one being of students participating in a juggling activity. This image portrays Marlwood as being a fun school. The three other photos have simply been placed on top of the main one. These photos show students working and participating in the latest school events. The main colour on the cover is green, which is part of the Marlwood School uniform. Also in the masthead, the colour maroon has been used which is also a uniform colour. The images all have green in so it seems to be quite a frequent colour within the magazine cover. All of the images are taken outside, so the lighting would have been the natural daylight at that time. With mise-en-scene, it is quite busy but doesn’t look very professional, although it does meet its targets by including more than one photo and a caption to show its content. The audience would be the students and parents, as both would be interested in Marlwood's achievements.