For my First front cover attempt of a school magazine i think
that it could be a suitable magazine to be sold and given to students in
my age group, which is between the ages of 16 and 18. I feel that the
pictures i chose to put onto the front cover ares suitable for the
magazine because it shows sixth form students in front of the school
sign and there are a few pictures on the school sign on its own. I
edited the pictures in different ways to make it more appealing and to
have brighter colours on the front. There are four pictures on the front
cover, one larger one in the middle and three smaller ones around the
outside. They have all be edited in a different way and i changed the
transparency of the three pictures around the outside to make the one in
the middle stand out even more.
I used different sizes and colours for the text to make them stand out against the black background colour. Some of the words in the text are different like example the word 'uni' is written in the same colour writing but written in italics to make it stand out an grab the readers eye. The title of the magazine is written in white and the font style is Comic Sans, this is because it is easy to read and appeals to a lot of young people. The magazine uses the schools colours such as having black as the background and having red text around the pictures to make it more appealing to the people that go to the school and so that people know that it is a magazine for the school.
The colours used my be the school colours but i feel that it makes the magazine appeal more to boy rather than girls because i have used dark colours Also i have used pictures on males on the front cover which makes it a more masculine magazine rather than a unisex magazine. So to make it appeal to both male and female i should have used a range of different colours to show different genders and included pictures on females on the front. I used different layers to build up my magazine front cover and i learned how to do this on Photoshop and i also now know how to edit pictures on Photoshop which is what a real media product would include. My magazine is like a real media product as it includes all the aspects that a real magazine would include, such as a large title, picture/pictures and text on the front cover. From doing the construction process i have learnt how to use Photoshop and how to make a magazine appeal to different genders an different age groups.I used Photoshop to construct my Magazine front cover then i published it into word so i could capture the construction process at home.
I used different sizes and colours for the text to make them stand out against the black background colour. Some of the words in the text are different like example the word 'uni' is written in the same colour writing but written in italics to make it stand out an grab the readers eye. The title of the magazine is written in white and the font style is Comic Sans, this is because it is easy to read and appeals to a lot of young people. The magazine uses the schools colours such as having black as the background and having red text around the pictures to make it more appealing to the people that go to the school and so that people know that it is a magazine for the school.
The colours used my be the school colours but i feel that it makes the magazine appeal more to boy rather than girls because i have used dark colours Also i have used pictures on males on the front cover which makes it a more masculine magazine rather than a unisex magazine. So to make it appeal to both male and female i should have used a range of different colours to show different genders and included pictures on females on the front. I used different layers to build up my magazine front cover and i learned how to do this on Photoshop and i also now know how to edit pictures on Photoshop which is what a real media product would include. My magazine is like a real media product as it includes all the aspects that a real magazine would include, such as a large title, picture/pictures and text on the front cover. From doing the construction process i have learnt how to use Photoshop and how to make a magazine appeal to different genders an different age groups.I used Photoshop to construct my Magazine front cover then i published it into word so i could capture the construction process at home.
Overall my contents page had many flaws for example the colours ad he type of text used for it. I will consider these whilst doing my music magazine product later on in the course. The contents page fits in well with my front cover, as i use the same colours and i used the same font style so it will appeal to my age group, which is my target audience. Whilst doing the construction process on my contents page i learnt how to crop pictures and add text on to the background of the bottom layer.
From doing this project i feel that i need to get more confident on using Photoshop and learn more complex techniques to use on my music magazine.
