School Magazine Cover Final Product



Firstly, I edited my photograph,by airbrushing and cropping it.













I transferred my photograph into InDesign  and  my masthead design.

I then added the text needed for my selling line and my date and issue number.






I then added the text needed for my main cover line,copy and  paste a bar code.



My magazine desgin had now come together.



This is my final magazine cover design.





 













School Magazine Fonts

Initially  I was experimenting with a range of different fonts,sizes and colour.

I chose the font Showcard Gothic and decided to experiment with different ways in which I could present it.I chose to present my font as a speech bubble, simulating  the pupils saying that the magazine gives them success,but I thought that as a masthead it would overwhelm my magazine cover,I also didn't believe it was conveying the message of success.I then designed a range of dynamic angular shapes I now felt like these created the idea of succeeding.

I chose this to be my final masthead degin  beacuse, I feel that it is  bold,and  it conveys the message of success: acheiving,this is due to its dymanic and creative design .Above all , it would also stand out gainst my grey magazine cover.

School Magazine Contents Page Photoshoot

I do not like this picture because the young boy in this photographs heads faced downwards causing him to look a little bit sleepy.

These pictures are supposed

to portray a young boy on a 

guitar.

I like this picture the boy seems to be enjoying playing the  guitar his face is positioned up[wards and he is directly facing the audience.

I don't  like this picture because  the  boy looks very static and wooden,causing the picture to look boring and dull.

These pictures are supposed to be portraying a student  fully engrossed and enjoying reading a book.

I do not like this photograph the girl has a plastic smile on her face and is not even  reading the book which causes her to seem as if she is uninterested.

I really like this picture the girl genuinely looks as if she is enjoying reading the book,of course her expression is slightly exaggerated but not so much so that it looks over the top or fake.

I do not like this picture because the girl has blank expression on her face making the photograph boring.

The following pictures are supposed to portray a student receiving help from a teacher.

I like this photograph it shows the student seeming to be genuinely happy  to receive help from  her teacher how ever  the photograph needs to be cropped in order  to get rid of unnecessary background distraction.

I do not like this photograph because the student has a blank express on her face causing her to seem as if she is uninterested or bored,which is not what I'm trying to portray.

In this photograph both the student and the teacher have blank expressions on their faces causing the photograph to become very dull.

I do not like this photograph because the student looks tired or almost bored,causing the photograph to fall flat.

The following photographs are supposed to portray a young student celebrating her achievement.

I don't like both this picture and the one above because her hands covering the medals so you can barely see them and in both pictures her heads held high and cocked to one side depicting that she is a bit over confident or cocky.

I really like this photograph because she has a big smile on her face, and you can actually see her medals.Furthermore, her hand is held out suggesting that she wants to share her achievement  with the rest of her school.Unfortunately she is not looking directly in to the camera which makes the photograph slightly disjointed.

I like this photograph  because you can clearly see that the student is happy with her achievement.

I like this photograph because the student looks very happy with her achievement but the fact that she is not looking  directly into the camera makes the photograph dis engaging.

Change in ideas!!

In my second photo shoot I was unable to get all the people that were in my original one, evidently, they were people of different races.Furthermore, I'm still conveying  the message of people of all races working together by  is featuring  this  in my contents page.Moreover  the message  portrayed on my front cover now is of  ethnically diverse students,  achieving which averts the stereotype of them as being the predominant trouble makers and low achievers in school.The  magazine cover below inspired me to come up with this new concept.

I still based my compositions and the activity that was featured in the photographs from my original research,so no changes have been made there,the only changes were with the concept,which was altered due to circumstance and organisation.

School magazine Cover Photoshoot take 2

I do not like this picture because everyone in it is looking  at a laptop  in a very un-animated way making the picture very boring,there is also some books that are brought to the fore front of the photograph,unfortunately drawing attention way from the people in it.

I don't like this picture because everyone  in it is cut off  in this frame ,and I think it looks ridiculous.

I really like this picture because everyone in it is looking directly  in to the camera which makes the picture engaging,and interesting.I have decided to  use this picture for my magazine cover.

Above is a sketch of my magazine cover,this shows  where I will position every thing when producing the final  product.

School Magazine Contents Page Reserach




 

  I like the layout  of  this contents,it is horizontal rather than vertical.There is an editors letter,featured on this contents,which is a feature that has not been featured on the other contents pages.The image on the top of the page is huge in comparison to other photographs on the page to emphasize that it is the main article.There are other pictures present that are small in comparison to emphasize that they are insignificant articles in comparison.There is also a colour scheme or red,white and black and yellow which uses a wider range of colours in comparison to the other contents pages I have looked at.


This contents page has both a horizontal and a vertical format.The colour scheme is red,white and blue.There are only two pictures featured in this contents page,the first picture featured on the top of the page is very large to emphasise that this the main feature of the magazine.The other photograph present is much smaller in order to demonstrate that the feature is of less significance.The contents table is fairly long in order because there is a lack of pictures featured.

 


This contents page is very bland and bare the colour scheme is simple with red and black being the only colours present all of the pages featured are numbered which doesn't allow the reader to know what to focus on.

This contents page is very bland and bare the colour scheme is simple with red and black being the only colours present all of the pages featured are numbered which doesn't allow the reader to know what to focus on.

This contents page again has a strict colour scheme of black and yellow so that it doesn't look over whelming.This is a lot more interesting than the contents page below. Photographs are featured on  this contents page  a that have the number pages featured on them,this gives the reader a generalisation of what the article is to include,and it also shows the reader what they need to focus their attention on.This is also backed up with the contents table it self it does not feature all the pages in the magazine,again only on what they what the reader to focus on.I have decided to base my final contents page page on this contents page layout.

  

School Magazine Photoshoot

I think that the large computer, draws attention from the people in the photograph.The distractions in the background make the photograph look slightly cluttered and busy.There needs to be a dress code put in place,so that the people look like they relate to one another, therefore fitting in with my theme of  ethnic unity.I think in future I will make sure everyone wears different coloured t-shirts,this will highlight the message I am trying to convey,and it will also contrast with the dark colours in the background making the people sand out.At the moment,everyone is wearing dark colours and are in a sense blending in to the background.The camera is also slightly out of focus,so in order to improve this I would hold the camera steadier,set the camera on a tripod or use a better camera.

I do not like this photograph at all  there is not enough light present in the shot therefore causing there to be no real sense of definition on the people's facial features.The fact the girl has her hair covering her face,makes the photograph look really awkward because you can't fully see who she is.The text book they are reading needs some light reflected away from it,because it has become,  too shiny and overly bright.I could improve the lighting quality by holding a sheet of white paper just besides each of there faces in order to reflect enough so that every one and everything is clearly seen.

I used camera flash in the photograph causing the  photograph  be to bright  and shiny  and blurry,instead I could of incorporated natural  light,by taking the photograph in an area in the library that was well lit.

This photograph is unclear and out of focus,there is not enough  presence of light and the computer in far too large taking the glory away from the people in the photograph.

Again there is poor lighting quality,the composition I believe is not very good and the  people do not actually seem to be reading the book but instead staring mindlessly at it,so I need some more interaction present with the props to make the photograph come across as believable.

The camera has zoomed too far  out,so  that you can just about make out the image of the people,it also makes it difficult to know what to focus on,as there are too many background distractions are present.

I know this photograph is not amazingly brilliant,but with this photograph,I am beginning to see some  thought behind it.The composition is more organised,there is a glimmer of decent lighting present;this could be improved as I mentioned before,if the people  were wearing bright colours this would help them to stand out and  I could also make use of the natural light present in the room. I also need to mix up the arrangement of the people,the mixed raced girl and the white boy are positioned together as are the two black kids.Evidently,I need to mix up the composition so it at least looks like there is more racial diversity, present.I could also improve the focus of my photograph.