AS Media XXL Magazine Review

Music Magazine Moodboard

This is my mood board for my planned music magazine called Respective.

Researching The Magazine Market

This Prezi shows statistics and facts about the magazine market both music and other types such as TV magazines for example.

Anatomy Of A Magazine Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Own Example Labelled

 

Evaluation Of The Preliminary Task

Completed Preliminary Task

My completed student magazine front cover

 

 

 

Here is my completed student magazine front cover. It include both of my own edited images. Using InDesign allowed me layout my page to avoid looking cluttered and unprofessional. Also for my magazine I used the same colour scheme of black, red and white.

 

 

My completed contents page

 

 

 

My contents page again uses my own images that I edited myself through Photoshop. For my contents page I followed on from my research of professional magazine contents pages using minheadings, images and page numbers. Throughout I also stuck to my original colour scheme.

 



Student Magazine Market Research & Planning

Research for my student magazine front cover

Research for my student magazine contents page

 

 

 

 

 



Preparing The Front Cover Image

For my magazine front cover I took multiple images as seen above, of various subject within the college. I ended up using two of these images for the front cover. Below is the original image and the image after I touched it up a little bit on Photoshop.

The main image for my student magazine cover.

 

 

The image after adjusting the contrast and output looks more details and refined. I also cropped a little around the edge of the image because I didn't need some of the background that was in the original photo. For the front cover image I made sure I used a medium close up which is from the torso upwards. The reason I did this was following on from typical conventions used by most magazines.

The original second image I used for my front cover and the image after Photoshop

Using Photoshop for this image I not only used the contrast and out levels adjustments, but I cut out the image of my subject from the background to put onto my own plain white background. I didn't this because I didn't want the original background behind the subject because it wouldn't fit in with my colour theme on the front cover of the student magazine.

I used the Polygonal lasso tool to cut around the subject, making sure I got as close as I could around the edge out my subject. I then used the refined edge brush to mope up any of the original background that still showed. After that I simply copied the image onto a new layer which gave me a professional looking cut out image ready to use for my front cover.

Photoshoot 1

The first photoshoot I conducted was to aim and take photos of real events going on in the college. I practised different types of shots such as:

• The framing of the image - For this I used object and scenery that was already there in order to make my subject the main centre of the image

• Composition - This is putting objects in the image in a position that fit around the environment to make it look professional and also to stand out.

• Shot size - Practising different shot sizes such as a medium close up and extreme close up for example allowed me to understand the importance of where the camera is aimed and how close or far away it is from the subject to make sure you are getting the best picture possible

• Contrast - Using a unique colour in the image that stood out from other colours around it made images more powerful in a sense than others

Here are the images I took during the photoshoot.

 

Here is an example of one of these original photos I took and then edited in Photoshop through cropping and retouching the image


In Photoshop I cropped out part of the outer edge on the image I didn't want. After that I adjusted the brightness, contrast and the output levels. It created a bit of a darker image.

Preliminary Task

For the preliminary task we had to produce a front cover and a contents page for a new college magazine.

In order to complete this I had to go out and take my own photos which I then edited on Photoshop. I cropped, changed the contrast and levels of the image in order to make it look good quality  as professional as possible.

When designing the actual front cover and contents page I used InDesign, a publishing software that allows you to plan your layout to avoid overcrowding of your pages.