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.