Existing front covers

Here are a few different genres of music magazines. For my next project, I will have to choose a genre of music and produce a magazine with a front cover, contents page and double page spread to do with the genre of music I have selected.

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation of my school magazine

As I've now finished my school magazine and had feedback for it, I've now got to evaluate my performance and finished product.

Overall I think my finished magazine isn't bad for a first attempt; however I could do better if I got the opportunity to do it again. I feel like I did the right amount of planning needed for this product, I planned it out on paper, and then drew a quick sketch up on the computer of where I'd have the pictures, mast head and the information about my school. For both the contents page and the front cover I think that I went along with the major codes and conventions of main stream magazines, just at a more basic level.

If I had more time I think I could of produced a slightly better quality magazine front cover and contents page. I would of learnt how to use the software before I needed to use it so I didn't go straight into producing my magazine. However I am happy with my finished product although there can be some improvements to make it look more realistic.

Finished Magazine

After I got my feedback back, I changed around the layout of my magazine and this is my finished product.

 

 

 

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.