2. The design: the use of masthead at the top, colour scheme,
logo, bar code, paper used and their connotations and the
organisation of topics on the cover.
• Language used and its connotations
• Title: where it is often found, its size, its type face, its meaning
and the connotations of each of these aspects.
• The use of main image: Its size and its technical as well as its
symbolic codes
• The use of teasers: their function, location, font used, colour,
images, language used and their connotations
• The use of main image: Its size and its technical as well as its
symbolic codes
• The use of teasers: their function, location, font used, colour,
images, language used and their connotations
3. Masthead Title
Cover Lines
Main Headline Image –
Technical and
Symbolic Codes
Website
Teasers
Barcode
Cost
4. This is the College front cover. It is aimed at college
students and focuses all of its contents around
them. The masthead is centred in the middle at the top
like most other traditional magazines.
The headline is centred on the left hand side at the top.
This is different to many magazines as it is not in the
middle taking up the majority of the page.
The rest of the features are situated on the right and
left hand side in two columns. There is one picture on
the front cover, which is a long shot, and this is used
as the background and spreads across the whole
page. The font used is various in size but not style.
5. The colours that are used are not as
contrasting and apparent as the “Parent
and School” magazine. Overall the
strengths of this magazine are that is
simplistic and clean with no overlapping
features. The features are listed on either
side of the main picture which is the
background.
7. This is the “Parent and School” front cover.
It is aimed both related with education and
subject but different location.
The images are taken by different camera
shot, and lenses to engage the reader that
the photographer is clever. A deep/shallow
focus shot concentrates on the student
more than the doctor and nurse.
8. The Teasers for this magazine is there are a variety of
designs in this magazine like at the top, the name of
the magazine in three different fonts like – “Comic
Sans Mc” but the same colour. The font used is various
in size but not style most of the fonts doesn’t match
with the name or headline. And the bottom of the
magazine has the same font, but different colours –
red and white.
The colour scheme has black and red, while it is easier
for the audience to read clearly.
Overall, I would buy this magazine mainly the images
and title which gives the audience a meaning that
students should follow an example of the “smart boy”.
There is no barcode.
9. CONCEPTION
Images are developed appropriately for the
product being constructed. Spending adequate
time planning the images and produce a mock up
design for the front cover and other pages to
create witht he instinct for the right shot.
FRAMING AND COMPOSITION
Framing can be adjusted through croping at the
design/editing stage, but good framing in the lens
leads to a better quality image. By deciding
whether the subject in the photograph will be close
to us or further away.
10. SHOT DISTANCE
Using the zoom function will allow a variety of
possible distances. It is likely working mostly
in a medium close up such as shots of bands
or artists.
COLOUR AND RESOLUTION
The computer using for downloading and
editing and the printer influences the final
quality of resolution and colour. It is sensible
to trial the process first to get a sense of how
the reality of a photograph translates into a
printed outcome.
11.
12. The Brief as follows. The Print Preliminary exercise: using
DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front
page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a
photograph of a student in medium close-up plus
some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead.
Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the
layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the
program. Additional to this I was asked to create a mock-up
layout of the contents page.
Before I started to produce the front page and contents page,
I had to research previous existing material, to gain a vast
knowledge on this area so that I could take certain features
of previous material and produce them for my own product by
using Adobe Photoshop. Before I start producing my
magazine I learnt and understood this terminology in Media.
13. To do this I typed in various keywords such as
“college”, “student” and “magazine”.Once I had found,
and I uploaded the pictures either the front cover onto
my blog and began to analyse the material, by
suggesting what I may and may not take from .
After this was complete, and I had gained knowledge
and evidence from my research, I had to decide on a
layout, and designing some creative ideas to then start
my magazine. Once this was complete I finalised my
findings and drew up a layout for both my front cover
and my contents page.
This would be the plan that I would keep to, (if I felt
that an aspect of my product was not working) as I
went and it did, due to the pictures and fonts was now I
was expected.After designing my front cover and
content as a draft, I started to have weaknesses both
front and content so I analysed and seen the mistakes
such as the picture, colours, fonts, too much teasers.
14. For my background, I chose the colours
from black to white to grey, as I feel that it is
the base of all colours and most colours are
easily seen on the background. My
background is one of my original images. The
fact that it is an image of two college students
wearing their school uniform,concentrating
and helping out with their work during the
lesson, in a medium close-up shot.
15. I think that it is a refreshing piece of material which
shows students in a positive light. I also feel that it
gives the students more responsibility as like myself,
they must think about what may appeal to other
students and must carry out a lot of research. It also
gives them an opportunity to know what it is like
working for a production line.
My friends and I are now pleased for the effort using
to make a magazine. Through this project I have learnt
how to use Photoshop, and even how to use
computers made by windows. It has served me good
experience which I will carry on to my Main Task for my
Media A Level qualification.
