Feedback from fist magazine attempt

As part of my first project I had to create a magazine for my school. I'm part of the sixth form so I'm going to base my magazine around years 12 and 13. This means I can focus on more issues that go on in the sixth form rather than issues developed by years 7-11. My first draft of my magazine was very basic without a lot of pictures or information, so after I got feedback I knew I had to change it around. The feedback I got was basically telling me to add more information and more pictures to the contents page. So that is what I did.

Images

As I've had to use my own images, I've had to edit them myself to. The first image I edited, I cropped down all the sides so I made the image smaller than the original image. I then used a tool to make the whole image brighter. This image is of the two sixth form students, that I have placed on my contents page.

The wide angle shot of everyone working I've not edited. I didn't feel it needed anything doing to it as it's not a single person, it's a group of people so you can't really see their faces, therefore I didn't edit it at all. This image is my main image, I've used it as my front cover image.

The image I took of the tree, I've cropped it down so that the focus is only on the tree and not the surrounding area. I also darkened the surrounding area so that the tree stands out more. This image I have used in the upper right corner on both my front cover and contents page. I have places it behind the writing as the title needs to be seen more than the tree does.

Picture taking

For my school magazine I needed my own pictures to show the sixth form part of the school. I needed to used different shots like mid shot and close up shot. Firstly I started by taking pictures of pupils when they were working.

 

 

For these pictures I used a wide angle shot so I could get everyone working at the computers in.

I have used the top picture as my front cover picture, I've done this to encorporate the communal feel of the school into the magazine itself.

 

For my contents page I've used two pictures of sixth form students.

 

The first I've used a mid shot for both of these pictures, this shows the students working and it could also show the dress code that idsall has in place.

 

Magazine Draft

Before I started c reating my school magazine, I created a simple draft of what my magazine layout may look like. My colour scheme for my magazine will be green, black and yellow. These are all parts of our school colours so they will link in with the overall feel of a school magazine.

Editing

Everything that is in the media has been edited, either to make the person 'better' looking or to add a effect to make the picture stand out more. So for one of our tasks we had to edit three pictures, a close-up shot, mid shot and a long shot. For my close-up shot I took a picture of Kiera Knightly. I've not edited her face at all but I've given the picture a colour background, and I put a darker shade round her head then I used the burn tool to make her hair a shade darker and then used the smudge tool to slightly blend her hair into the background. The original unedited images are the bottom images and the ones I've edited are the top images.

 For the mid image I edited a picture of Mila Kunis. For this I increased the brightness, sharpness and the colour to give it a warmer tint to it. 

                                             

 

For the long shot I chose a picture of Cara Delevigne. On this picture I cut her out and pasted her 3 times. I then added a gradient to the left of the picture which was black and white and on the right of the picture I took away the black and white effect slightly so you can see her skin tone.

 

 

Mood Board

To create a school magazine I had to make a mood board, this will help me to get the colours and shades I want for my magazine. The main school colours off our school are green, yellow and black. These are the main 3 colours I am going to incorporate in my magazine.

What is an audience?

Throughout media and Film studies audience is one of the most frequently used terms. It’s a massive part of film, TV programmes and all other types of media. Overall audience helps the media industry to find out whether there programme, film, magazine etc. is worth presenting to the public. An audience is something that we tend to analyse at a distance, making generalisations about it, how we feel about it, what it means. It’s also something in which we are involved in, whether we like it or not.

We are part of an audience. We decide whether a film is good or not, we choose what magazines we buy, we watch TV programmes. This means that companies can find out what the public enjoy or like, they can find out what different target audience's like. There are loads of small compartments that creates an 'audience' this could be age group, gender, class, ethnic etc. Even if you don't want to, you are part of an audience.

My own definition of audience is 'audience is everyone, the media give us films, books, TV programmes, magazines etc. and we judge them based on our own personal likes and dislikes.'