Research and Planning – Preliminary Task
The first task I had to do for my Coursework was to Create a school Magazine cover and contents page, to contribute towards my research and planning. The brief explained that it had to feature a medium close - up shot of a student on the front cover and also a master head along with some text. In order to create my magazine cover and contents page I used the software called ‘Photoshop’. I’ve never properly used Photoshop until now, so it helped me learn a lot of new skills, which I can use in the future. This software is good as it allowed me to be creative and do many things I didn’t know about previously, such as cutting out a picture using several different tools and then placing it on a background. For my magazine cover I decided to create a school magazine for Langley Girls school. I named it ‘The LPGS Star’ as I feel this is very simple but catchy. I based my colour scheme of the magazine around the colour of the school badge, which is blue and white. Therefore, I set my background of the magazine as a light blue fading into white. On the front cover, I wanted to make it eye catching so I took a medium close up picture of two of my peers. With this picture, I then used the magic wand and lasso tool to cut an outline around their bodies and then layer the new outlined picture on top of the blue background. I did this to isolate the 2 girls in the picture and make them stand out on a plain background for a greater effect. I created a master head to make it clear what the name of the magazine is called. I added a picture of the logo underneath the master lead to make it eye catching and make people who go to Langley recognise it and buy it. The front cover picture matched up with the lead story line, I did this so that It can make people want to read the fully story inside, as this is the main sell line. The sub headings gave hints at articles which appear inside the magazine. I made sure that all the text was black and straight so it was quite formal due to it being a school magazine. The overall age category of the magazine is 10-18 year olds, this is because it is only relatable for school students who attend Langley Girls school. I made sure I included social media accounts so that it can gain interest from the younger generation. This is an important platform of media, as this age group is more likely to use sites such as Instagram and Snapchat etc. For my contents page, I kept it relatively simple. I used the same background colour (blue and white) and the same font. I did this so I kept the same flow throughout otherwise It would of clashed and looked too messy if I changed the background or font. I stuck to the same kind of layout and theme throughout the magazine which made it look more professional. I sectioned the page number from the subject of the page to make it easy for the reader to understand. I then inserted pictures from the internet on the left side of the page to catch the eye of the reader and hint what is inside. Overall, I learnt a lot about different tools and editing techniques whilst creating my magazine cover and contents page. I used tools such as; lasso, magic wand, background colour, crop, move, text, font, layers, paint bucket and many more.
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