Contents Page!

In my contents page I have included a number of different colours and pictures in order to make it interesting for the reader. My contents page title i decided to use a blue colour with yellow outlining, just because these are the colours that i decided to use on my front cover as they are clashing colours and will make the mast head stand out. The pictures that I included were the themes that I put on my front cover which I thought that girls my age would be interested in as I know that is what they talk about. The texts that I have used have a red background with black font for the title and white font for the text, I think that these three colours are a really good blend and look good together as they go with each other quite well and look nice.

Final Front Cover

I have used the draft that I made, I added a banner which said "student Magazine" I have included different banners to tell the reader what the magazine will include. I used the colour red as it also clashes with the blue and the yellow, I did not want to use too many colours so I decided to put all of my banners in red, however I did not want the banners to be the same colour as the mast head as i think that the front cover will look too plain.

Draft of Front Cover

This is my first stage of making my magazine, I had to cut round the picture of james using the pen tool which I had to keep quite a steady hand for, I copy and pasted the picture of my title and then filled it in, I had to zoom in to make sure that I did not fill the back ground, when I wanted to fill the background I had to go onto layer one to make sure that I kept james on the front cover! As you can see the colour of the Mast head and the background are clashing colours so that they both stand out and catch the readers attention.

Photos that i've Taken so far

First

I have taken lots of photos and i have narrowed it down to these 3 to be on my front cover. As the first two pictures are landscape this would make it very hard to get them to fill the page as the page is going to be A4 portrait. i would have to ,aybe crop the pictures to make them more sqaure so i could free transform them, however i should be careful not to free transform too much as the picture would look un-natural and very stretched out.



Second



Third

i think that the second picture is the best picture to put on the front of a student magazine, however i think that the third picture is pretty much the same however James is actually looking at the camera so it does not look like he is working.

if you could comment on this post saying which one you think is most suitable for the font cover of my student magazine then it would be much appreciated.

Organisation of Photo-shoot

As I am producing a student magazine I have decided that my photo for my front cover will be of a student working. I will need to think about the following:

• locations
• people
• customes
• lighting
• angles

I have decided that im going to take a photo of James working with his head down in the lesson of our Media Studies class. He shall be wearing his usual school uniform. The lighting will be as usuall in the lessons and i think that i am going to take the picture from a high angle as if the reader had a birds eye view on him.

The photos for the contents page will be off the girls in my Media Studies class, maybe by the chapel or just walking down the corridors. They will be wearing their usual school uniform and the lighting of the shots will be just usual how the lighting is around the school and angles of the shots may be at a low angle or just a normal angle.  Also some of the photos that I might include in my contents page may be of the chapel and what is in the chapel, I also my include a photo of Father Pinot.

Fonts Of Titles

I have chosen eight different fonts that would be suitable for my magazine. my favourite one is the top one, but you can comment which one you like, if you just want to comment 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or 8 as they are in order from 1-8. As you can see i have decided that the title off my magazine will be "what you want" as i think that the magazine should be about what the students want to know. also the title what you want was the most popular on my poll.

photo shop

i have produced this image on photo shop for the first time. i was given a image at the start and i had to make this out of all the different layers. i used the laso tool to select my crab from the original image when i needed to post it as a new layer, i used the elliptical marque tool when i needed to select the lemons a new layer. i found using these skills quite hard at first but as i had more practice i got a lot better at it.

Results of Questionnare

  the results of my questionnaire tell me that 5 out of the 8 people said yes to reading a student magazine and 3 said no to reading a student magazine. 2 people said they would buy a student magazine and 6 said they wouldn't pay for a magazine. 2 people said they would pay £1-£1.50 and 6 people said they would pay £0, 6 people said that the magazine should be designed for all years and 2 people said years 9&10, 6 people said that it should be made for both males and females whereas 2 people said that it should be made for just females.

Layout Designs

Contents page 2



Contents Page 1

I have looked threw a number of different magazines and have seen that there are a number of different layouts and the ones that i have designed are quite similar to the most popular ones. I have decided to choose contents page 1 because i prefer the layout and i think that the pictures look better straight, also the contents page is a lot more organised and the reader can see clearly what they want and they do not have to read threw a lot of different things just to get a bit of certain information. I prefer the front cover page 1 also as there is less on the front cover and i can leave the picture that i but as my front cover to make an impact on the reader, however i have included a number of different of cover lines where i can include the most important and most interesting things of what are included in the magazine, these can also attract the reader!


PLEASE COMMENT ON WHICH ONES YOU THINK!!!!! 





Front page 2





Front page 1



Questionnaire

Would you read a student magazine?
- Yes
- No


Would you buy a student magazine?
- Yes
- No


How much would you pay for a student magazine?
- £0-£0.50
- £0.50- £1
- £1-£1.50
- £1.50-£2
-£2-£2.50


Who should it be designed for?
- Year 7&8
- Year 9&10
- Year 11, 12&13


Who should it be made for?
- Males
- Females


Any additional comments?

Textual Analysis

Contents page

Front Cover

Common Sense was published by Luton Sixth Form College on the 9th of march 2005. It falls into the category of a college magazine, so there would not really be any competition if it was just for the college that it was produced by, but if it was on the market for all colleges then there may be some competition that tries to sell to them as well. On the front cover of this the background is a striking photo of Green day, the photo is not all too appealing but it makes the reader pick the magazine up and read whats on the front cover. Also on the front cover we are told what is in the magazine, we can see that there is "student sex appeal, chill out, real life stories, universities and good grub" these are all things that students are interested in, they may not be interested in green day but they could read the subtitles and then pick it up. There is a blue banner that says "American Idiots!" we can associate this with green day and as green day are on the front cover we can assume that there is going to be something about them in the magazine. all of the colours that are used on the front cover all seem to clash, these may be used so that everything stands out to the reader and this may appeal to the reader more. On the contents page we can see different pictures that associated with different pages, for people who don't like to read this can be good because they are still able to look through a magazine. Also in the contents page we can see all the different titles to all the different pages, this is good for people who are only interested in certain bits of the magazine, they can read through all the different titles and then decide which ones they are going to read. Also in the contents page we can see a letter has a introductory bit of writing to the magazine and what it is about, then we can see a little bit about what the next magazine is about encouraging the reader to by the next magazine.

Analysis of Student Magazines.

I have looked through two student magazines, comparing whats the same and whats different, and finding out what both of them have to offer for the students that are reading it.

Common Sense:

- front page is very colourful
- tells the reader whats on offer on the front cover
- picture is the background
- different colours
-contents page holds:

• celebrity stories
• technology stories
• student news
• student stories
• visiting universities
• whole magazine is about 30 pages in total

Student ID:

- colourful front cover
- number of different pictures
- different titles
- contents page holds:

• horoscopes
• love and hate of big brother
• competition!
• Bash Pictures
• whole magazine is 26 pages long

The Action Plan of Preliminary Task

Week 7.11.11
- Set up Blog
- Write action plan
- Analyses 2 magazines
- Create Questionnaire

Week 14.11.11
- Analyse Results
-  Design Draft Layouts
- Organise Photo Shoot

Week 21.11.11
- Take Photos
- Design + draft pages

Week 28.11.11
- Test pages
- Evaluate final pages

First Blog

My name is Charlie Roberts.

I have made this blog so I can use it for my Media coursework. The first task that i have been asked to complete is the Preliminary task, in this task i have to produce a 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 masthead.