Editing Main Image

Magazine Images

We where asked to go out of lesson and take photos that will feature in a school magazine we are designing.

This will feature as an image to show the school dinner hall as there will be an article on new lunch options.

This image will be my main image, it will featire on the front cover and on the contents page of my magazine and shows a person holding a book on GCSE success which will show that inside the magzine are exam results.

This image will represent the feature article on school productions and shows the upcoming production of beauty and the beast

Camera Shots part 2

Camera shots part 1

We where asked to go out and follow a sheet of instructions taking different types of camera shots, we had to follow the breif and take numerous images that show different ideas 

Hand Drawn design of magazine Contents Page

We where asked to design a hand drawn rough copy of my contents page for my preliminary task in which we have to desing and produce a school magazine.

Hand Drawn design of magazine front cover

Plans for Front page and Contents page of My school Magazine

We where asked to create a plan of what our school magazine front cover and contents page would feature. 

Front Cover

Title: Schools In

My front page image will have books in the background that will be faded out to make the pupil in the picture the main focus of the image.

Cover lines: A level results, GCSE results, New school productions, Charity events, New lunch options.

Contents Page

Regular contents: Upcoming Charity events, School productions, Upcoming school trips, New enrichment options, new volunteering options.

10 Feature Articles: This years A level results, This years GCSE results, New computers, Coping with exam stress, Healthy eating, how to use follow me print, This years music clubs, Pink Day, Halloween, World book week

Codes and Conventions of Magazine Contents pages

When designing a magazine contents page, codes and conventions are usually followed to make the page aesthetically pleasing and easy for the reader to follow, these are some of them:

• Basic colour schemes are usually used to make it easy on the eyes and consistent with the front covers colour scheme, it usually shows a clear genre.
• The writing on the contents page is usually set out  in columns.
• There is always a main image on the contents page which links to the main story of the magazine.
• Featured articles are placed on the contents page to show what's in the magazine.
• Deals for magazine subscriptions are usually featured on the contents page so that readers can subscribe and have the issues sent to them directly.
• A message from the editor is sometimes featured on the contents page welcoming new readers.
• Smaller images on the contents page link to other stories featured in the magazine.
• Page numbers and captions linking to stories are in different fonts an colours to make them stand out to the reader.
• On the contents page a website is usually featured at the bottom as its least important to the reader.
• Sometimes Buzz words are featured on the contents page to link to stories.
• The word "Contents" is always found at the top of contents pages so it's the first thing people read when they open the magazine.
• Magazines always use size 11 font and consistent throughout to make it aesthetically pleasing.
• An introduction of what's in the issue is usually written by the editor on the contents page.
• Sometimes credits to the photographer who took pictures for the magazine will be featured on the contents page.
• Empty space divides different articles and the masthead on contents pages are sometimes smaller or similar to the covers masthead to show continuity.
• In the list of contents, the page number will always come before the text and will follow with a few words e.g. the artist name, ambiguous texts to entice the reader in either bold/ capitals and usually in 13/14 size font. A sub-line comes after this and is in more detail about the article in a smaller and usual roman font, it is never in any font bigger than size 11.

Codes and Conventions of Music Magazine covers

Companies tend to follow codes and conventions when designing there magazine covers to make them appealing to the reader, these are some of them:

• Bold titles or mastheads are used to make the words stand out to the reader.
• Magazines will always feature a bar code, the issue date and sometimes the website.
• Most magazine covers will feature catchy slogans to catch the readers attention.
• Magazines will always have a main picture on the cover to get the readers attention or anyone who glances at the magazine.
• The cover of magazines are usually quite busy to catch the readers attention and show what's in the magazine, there is hardly any empty space on the cover.
• Magazine covers will always have there logo either in the top left so that when it's on a shops shelf people can easily see the logo or straight along the top of the page.
• Sometimes logo's are placed partially behind the main picture which can make the magazine look better however, only magazines with very well known logos can do this as everyone already knows there logo and what it looks like.
• Magazine covers will usually feature a positioning statement under the logo to basically say what the magazine is about in a way.
• The title or logo on the magazine covers is always a unique font to all the other text in the magazine.
• Magazines always feature cover lines to represent that stories that are inside the magazine.
• Most magazines will feature buzz words or puffs. for example: the word exclusive, this catches the reader and makes them want to read what's so exclusive.
• The images on magazines usually anchor the text.
• Text on magazines will always run down the sides, text very rarely goes in the middle of the cover.
• Magazines tend to have smaller images at the bottom of the cover which show what other stories are in the magazines.
• Cover lines on magazines will usually be in the same font and there will usually be about 5-6 of these, not too many. 
• The cover will always be simple colours to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
• Magazines will try an show clearly what genre they are writing for through the design of the front cover.
• The main images on magazines covers will usually be be medium close-ups, or a close ups.