Taylor Cowton Media: School Magazine Cover & Contents

Monday 15 September 2014

School Magazine Cover & Contents

School Magazine Front Cover

In order to create my magazine cover I took photographs of people around the school in different locations and also a Medium long shot of a Sixth form student in the correct dress code to use as the main cover photo. I also took a picture of the Heworth Grange Logo from the Heworth Website.

School Magazine Contents Page

I used Photoshop to create my magazine cover. To add text I used the text tool and chose the font "Perpetua" for both the Masthead and the main cover lines. I have used the most basic of the key features that magazines use, a masthead, straplines and main cover lines and also a main image with a few small images at the side. I didn't do any editing to the main image other than crop it to size and I only cropped and resized the smaller images. I took a photo of a "Pintrest" pin and deleted the background to use as a fun way of making the cover look like it is a notice board. With the Heworth logo I just used the magic eraser to remove the background.

To create my contents page I colour-picked the pink colour from the right hand side of the main cover background. I added a rectangle box to put the title of the page, "contents" in. I wrote a quick summary of the magazine adressed to the readers. I then put the stories alongside their page numbers and used different colours to differentiate the main story from the description of it. I carried the theme of the cover onto the contents and used pins to make it look noticeboard-like. To add the "HG MONTHLY" to the background of the page I used the text tool and double clicked the layer to edit it. I changed the opacity to make it blend to the background and unclicked the red colour of RGB and left the green and blue to create the colours that show now.

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To achieve my target my research, planning and evaluation must be detailed, effectively communicated and presented digitally, using a wide variety of formats. I need detailed research into similar products and target audience and to show the process of planning by including excellent work on shotlists, drafts, storyboards, scripts, locations and props. I need to show full evidence of the research and
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