The sheet helped us to do our photo shoot for our front cover. We had to use a medium-close up shoot and any choice of location. We had to take the picture on a plain white background and some where else. We had a choice to use any lightings and props if we wanted to. After taking a couple of pictures I chose which one I wanted to use. I decide not to have a plain white or a coloured background because I thought using the picture with the school behind it was very nice and it was the look I was going for. I airbrushed the picture a little bit to make the models face a bit smoother and changed the eye colour. The next was to construct the magazine on PhotoShop. I first decided which three colours I was going to use and which one stood out from the background. Next I choose what the articles which was going to appear on the front cover in what front. I decide to only use three colours and fonts so that the magazine didn’t look too crowed or messy. I used black, blue and yellow and download fonts off the website 1001freefonts.com an added a button to make the magazine stand out. I began to play around to see where the articles looked best on the magazine and the different sizes.
Cover Plan
Planning: Own cover
Using the secrets of the magazine cover I had decided on how I want my magazine to look like. I’m going to base my magazine on the 6th form rather than the lower years. Because the 6th form is mixed I want to make sure that it appeals to both sexes. To achieve this I will make sure that the different factors which will be used to create my magazine appeals to both the girls and boys.
Fonts: the types of fonts which I’m going to use are decorative and a sans serif font. I’ve decided not to use a script-style font because it’s too elegant which would appeal to my target audience which are teenagers aged 16-18.Colours: because it’s going to be a mixed magazine it would be obvious to use pink and blue, however I had decided to use yellow blue and black. Also to make the colours stand out I will use contrasting coloured background.Images: the image will include both male and female on the cover on a scenery background so that it looks more interesting than if it was on a plane background also so I’m not biased towards the females or males.
Rule of thirds: when taking the picture for my magazine I will make sure that the readers are drawn to the middle of the magazine.Mode of address:
Semiotics: I will not use any semiotics because I think it is unnecessary for a school magazine to have a semiotics.Name of magazine: the name of the magazine is going to be called ‘TOAST’.
When I finished planning my magazine cover I than had to plan the photo shoot itself. Using this sheet below:
Table of Context
I wanted to use different colours than the ones I used on my front cover. This was because if I used the three colours as the background the black would have been to dark and the blue and yellow were too bright. So I decided to use grey, white and black. I used grey background white spirals in the middle which I designed on PhotoShop. I also matched the fonts with the same colour coordination. The main cover stories and the page numbers are in black. The description of the articles and the articles which are on the right-hand side are in grey. I used different shades of grey to it blended in with the magazine but it still stood out.
Table of Context Plan
After I had finished my magazine cover I made a plan for my context table. For my table of context I wanted it to be very simple compared to the magazine cover. I designed a very simple design because the magazine itself is quite simple. I had the main cover stories on the left-hand side of the page with the page numbers on the right-hand side. Over information such has horoscope and competitions on the right-hand side and the page number on the left-hand side. I also wanted the fonts in different sizes and different colours so each section stood out.
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