My front cover
My front cover shows a clear title of
what the magzine is, "the school bell". I've chose this colour
because it is one of the colours that are present in St.Marks colour scheme,
and i want to try and go on this theme, as my model on the main front page, is
wearing a st marks blazer, and tie. I have tried to fade out the bottom of the
image of Chloe, in order to make her face stand out the most. I have added a
barcode to make the maagzine look more proffesional, however after thinking
about it, a school magazine would most likely be free, or just in the reception
for people to read, so i am now thinking this was possibly a bad idea. I have
the date on top, I have made it a monthly magazine, as most of the news would
happen over a month, not just over a week. I also would like to feature the
Jack Petchey student who wins an award each month. I like the text that says
"Read more inside" i think this looks proffesinal, however next time
i would've made this closer to the text saying "student in Year 7 wins the
Jack Petchey award". I have cut out an image of Lewis, and captioned it
"What he said" this is part of the gossip part of the magazine. I
have also an image of a teacher, who is dressed nicely, to feature in my
fashion section of the magazine. This magazine is mainly taregeted at the
students, and how they are getting on in the school. This magazine would most
likely be written by students as well, as a gossip magazine is more informal,
than a magazine about a sixthform course etc. I have chosen this background
colour, because i think it compliments the deep burgundy of the title text, i
also like it because its light enough for you to be able to see things on
easily, however it is not white. I didnt want this to be white because this is
a plain colour, and rarely any magazines have just a white background. I have
used large text with the caption for the main poicture as it is the main story.
After looking at NME magazine one thing i don't like about my magazine, is that
most of the images feature someone looking into the camera, but everyone else
loooking away, possibly involved in a task or what not. I would prefer if more
people were looking away, but as it is a gossip magazine, this is the people in
the magazine opening up to the audience. I have used the font
"IMPACT" on my magazine as i think its a fun, but not too informal or
formal of a font group. It gets the point across, and is easily readable. I
could've used arial, but i think this is too common.
Photoshop
I began to get more familiar with
photoshop, however there are some things that i would've liked using it to help
me with. For example, the rulers and items sticking out of Chloe's pocket. I
would've liked to get rid of these in order to make her uniform look smarter,
as she is meant to be recieving an award due to her excellence. Also, as it was
snowing this day, there was some snow that was in chloe's hair, I didnt want
this, as it looked slightly unprepared, and like i had just taken an image of
anyone. I tried to use a clone stamp tool to get rid of this, but unfortunatley
this didnt go to well, and looked unnatural. I like that i could cut lewis out
from his originial background, however would've liked to make the image larger
overall so that it looked more imoortant, and took up more space. I also
would've liked to get rid of the clutter in the background of the teachers
room, there is a cardboard box, and other items, which i think would've looked
better if they werent included. However i have enjotyed trying out photoshop,
and didnt know that it had so many features that i can use.
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