Our second task involved making a magazine Cover and Contents page in a school theme, I went for a Teach based Magazine, so I went for a rather formal and factual approach to the magazine. We used Adobe Photoshop to show that we could use the software with ease and to decide if we want to make either a magazine or a movie for the final project.
To start we had to take a photo of either a student or teacher to use for the "Main Feature Article". My group asked a teacher if we could use his photo. Because I went for a factual magazine I used a teacher as he was dressed up formally, I personally think this is the right approach as it fits the theme of the magazine giving the audience the feeling that it was A: It was made to teach people and B: Just to give that "boring" teacher look to the magazine, Making it look like the type of magazine that would be stereotypical for a teacher to read.
After taking the photo of the teacher, we continued taking some other photos just in case I wanted to go a different route, we took one photo that had a nice brick wall behind it and I wanted to use the background of the image for my front cover. Once we took the photos off of the camera I Photo shopped the image so that It was just a wall then I used the Hue/Saturation Tool to add in the colored tint to the wall. After this I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut the background out of the image of the teacher, once that was done I cleaned up the edges by removing excess background that was left over from the lasso tool. Afterwards I duplicated the image and I made it Black and 50% opaque so that it would resemble a shadow, a theme I used multiple times on my cover. I made the teacher on the Front Cover of my magazine be above the Masthead and a few of the articles on the side of the cover. I made the Bottom line Above the Teacher so that I could put the Strap Line of my Magazine "To Learn | To Teach | To Discover". I also needed a place to put my bar code so I put it on the front of my cover with the line. As you can see I used a puff with the crucial information "Interview with the one and only Mr Quinlan". As this is supposed to be a really important part of the magazine I used a buzz word in full capital letters to draw attention using the word "EXCLUSIVE". I took inspiration from the magazine "Q" for my masthead. I made a red box in the top left hand corner to put my Magazines logo, Title and a sub heading. I used the shadow idea for my logo as I liked the idea of making stuff "Stand out" from the page, giving them a sense of importance so that the attention of the view is drawn to them. The Sub heading reads "The #1 Magazine for Teachers" This is supposed to be eye-catching and to draw the attention of teachers, one of the targeted audiences for this magazine. I also added A box at the top with an award for my magazine saying "Voted Best Factual News Magazine 2016" because this is supposed to be a satirical piece of work.
I then started working on my Contents page, this was supposed to be very different to the the magazine cover as the cover is supposed to be cheesy and eye-catching compared to my contents page. As the magazine would of been factual I thought it would be best to go for a nice background image with a table of contents in the empty part of the background. I found a really nice Royalty free image of Earth which I then added to the bottom of my page, making the background of my page black to fill the rest of my page. In the black area I added my contents page. As this is only a preliminary task I added the articles that I had on the front cover of my alongside some filler articles to add in my contents. I also added some images to the left of the crucial articles that I added to the Front Cover.
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