Magazine Finals.

Contents Page analysis of effects/colour schemes

This magazine contents page is very simplistic but effective, it uses a black and red colour scheme for text to emphasize the magazine, also it uses dark pictures giving it a rocky feel, with page references to where they are in the magazine, which assumes that the readers of the magazine know who the stars are, and therefore there is no text to go with the pictures. i believe i can incorporate the darker elements from these pictures into my magazine, to give my magazine a more obvious and specific genre.

This magazine contents page is crammed full of writing, showing the headings of sections in the magazine and then the main topics underneath these headings, also this magazine uses pictures with text underneath to highlight the important articles in the magazine. this magazine also has a message from the editor at the top, with the front cover of the magazine posted in the corner. the contents page has a yellow/black/ white colour scheme which is seen in its writing. i believe i could use a few smaller images on my contents page to break it up and show its more rock/metal genre, also i could use a quote at the top much like the one from Kirk Hammett.




this 'Reviews' contents page has many elements that i would like to incorporate into my contents page, such as the simple main image on the front, which clashes with the green white colour scheme. i also like the simplicity of this page as it has one main image, with a smaller one over the top at the bottom, and a simple plain list of what it has to offer. the main image incorporates the genre of rock/metal with the style of hair and clothing the people are wearing, also the girls dress clashes with the green to draw the readers attention to the image. also with the Reviews in a large font at the bottom of the page, it attracts the readers eye and makes it a more interesting read being positioned differently from a generic music magazine, also it helps the image as the faces aren't blacked by the writing which is the most important feature of the picture for the reader.

Coursework Draft Pieces

i have used boxes to convey where the text for my main story shall be although, being unable to access my blog over the half term due to going on holiday without internet, i shall write a story while i am away

Preliminary Task Magazine Cover

I worked with Paul Briggs, and we managed the task between us by each making a basic magazine cover and putting them together, we both took a number of pictures, so that we had a decent spectrum of pictures to choose from, which helps as it shows that we can select the best pictures to use for our magazine so that it can look as good as possible.

We used the school website and newsletters as inspiration, but added our own personal touches to improve the basic school format, such as an updated logo appealing to a more teenage audience with a bright cyan colour and black stripes contrasting on the school emblem.

We used computers with Adobe Photoshop to complete this task, as Photoshop has all of the tools needed to create a magazine cover, such as layers, effects, and the range of photo editing tools that can be used to do a variety of things to make the magazine cover pictures and text look the best that they can.

When planning, we had to take into account the audience and what information would be needed to be used, during shooting the pictures we took into account the relevancy of the pictures in contrast to the information on the page, and whilst editing we took into account the rule of three colours and three fonts, and also we took into account the basic layout of a magazine cover, that can be used to make our magazine look very professional and publishable.

I believe the consistency of the magazine layout worked well, as all font styles and layout colours were the same from both the magazine cover and contents page, and use the traditional basic magazine layout, where the masthead is on the top of the cover to keep a very simplistic but effective layout. We kept the colour palette to the school colours theme with turquoise and black fonts, and with cyan, yellow and white as a background colour to contrast the text on the page so it stands out effectively. The colour palette appeals to a teenage audience as it uses bold and bright colours, whilst still using dull colours to show the more adult like and professional look, which shows sensibility and practicality as the text contrasts well with background images and background colours.
If we had more time/ another chance to do this I believe we would use a variety of different Photoshop tools to make our magazine cover work a lot smoother, as the colours scheme is very block coloured. Also we could have taken more pictures, to have a larger variety of options for the front cover and therefore improving the overall look of the magazine/

From completing this task, I have learnt a variety of things, mostly how to use Photoshop tools effectively and have improved on using the magnetic lasso tool, which in future will help me with other picture related work. I also have learnt further aspects of magazine covers such as the placement of pictures, and text on the page to be effective and follow traditional magazine layouts.