Over the last 2 weeks we've had to make a front cover and a contents page for a school magazine. We had to put our photoshop and photography skills to use to do this.
On the front cover i used 3 images- one of the dance show, one of a business day and one of two sixth form students. The image of the stage shows us that the school is active in doing shows and students work hard to put on shows for large auiences. The bottom right image is one of younger students in the schoolworking together on one of the business days in school. This re-inforces that the school is Business and Enterprise based. The picture in the bottom left of the sixth form students next to the logo showa they are proud of their school they're also smiling which shows they're happy to be there. In the top right hand corner there is the school logo, this was an obvious for the front page! It's there so the reader knows where the magazine is from.
There isn't alot of text on my front cover. I made up a small quote that links with the schools specialist subject. This tells the reader what the school is best at and what it specialises in. The title of the magazine is right in the middle in black bold writing. I used this text so the reader knew exactly what the magazine was when looking at it. Also the black goes with the red background and the other text which is yellow. These 3 colours are ones which are associated with the school and the school's uniform. Under the main picture there is a headline which shows that is the main story in the magazine.
The contents page also has a recd background with the black writing on top. It makes the text easy to read and again is the colours of the school. There are page numbers and short sentances about main articles that are going to be in the magazine.
In the top right corner there is again the logo of the school. I used the older logo on the contents page to keep things different, also if the reader didn't recognise th one on the front they'll be sure to recognise this classic! In the bottom right there is a picture of a working sixth form class room with text just the the left giving a sneak peek of what's going to be in the next weeks magazine. As it's an OFSTED report the picture links with the text as the classroom looks to be hard at work and all students are always on best behaviour when OFSTED are in!
One strength i think my magazine has is that it's obvious what it is. No matter where you saw you you would know straight away that it is a magazine from St.Mark's school. The colours used, logos and pictures all make it obvious.
A weakness of magazine is that is doesn't look very professional. It may not attract the reader if it was on a shelf as it does look quiet boring.
If i were to start the task again i'd make alot of improvements. Firstly the magazine didn't turn out at all how i had hoped. The pictures on the front cover and contents were ones i took from the shared area on the school computer as the pictures i took would not upload onto the school system. If you have seen my previous blog about my mock up of the magazine you'll see alot of differences! So next time i'll bring in my own camera and lead to use so i know the pictures i take will definately get onto the school system.
Also i had started my magazine in a previous lesson but in the last lesson before it had to be in i couldn't find it on the system anywhere. So i had to start from scratch with one hour to do both the contents page and the front cover. So in future i'd be alot more careful when saving work and i'd leave more time to do it so i could do it as i'd planned in my draft.
From the preliminary task i've learnt quiet alot. I need to plan more carefully and in more detail. I also need to use my time effectively and decide when i'm going to do certain things (BE MORE ORGANISED). I did also learn i few tricks on photoshop which i'll take with me when doing my music magazine.
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