Creating the Contents Page

When making this contents page I wanted to make the background colour a little darker than the front cover so not to take away attention. I also wanted to change the colour of the writing and I made this a bit brighter. I followed my plan for the page well and therefore I think that it looks quite good and professional. I kept the fonts the same as the cover as I thought that this would look more prfoessional.

Creating a contents page mock up

Here I have created a contents page mock up to show where my images will go and what the fonts will be on the page. I have also annotated the page to write about the fonts, pictures and placing of everything.

Airbrushing
Airbrushing is when get rid of any spots and blemishes that a person has in a picture.

In picture one, which is the original picture the girl has a spot and dimple but in the second image the spot and dimple have been taken away. This has been done by cloning around the area of where the spot is and going over the actual area. Then a blur was put across the image and features like the eyes, lips, eyebrows, nose piercing and earring where all brought back. Then her eyes were changed from colour blue to green. A soft light was added to this so the colour would become transparent and would look more natural. Her hair colour was also changed from the mousy-brown in the first image to a blonde in the second. This was only a tester image therefore the hair isn’t perfect as the hair line doesn’t look natural and the wisps of hair that hang about her face have to sorted out as well.

Creating a mock-up magazine cover

I cropped Lucy out of the original image because the colour of the wall wasn't the same shade of yellow as there were many shadows which made it look unclean. I also had her holding a Sixth Form Handbook to show that the magazine will be for Years 12 and 13. The main image also reflects the main kicker at the bottom about the applications of the new Year 12's.

So I cropped her out and put her onto a new document then added a background that was all the same shade. Just like I planned in my basic mock-up I have put the masthead at the top of the page and I put strapline underneath. I have also put a dateline on the top right hand corner and next to that I thought I would decorate it a sprig of holly.

I have put my two kickers down the left hand side of the page and have also inserted images that relate to what the article will be about.


I have only used two font's when writing my kickers and explainatory lines as I thought that this would make the cover look more professional. I did use another font when it came to writing the masthead of the cover and decided to use something that was a bit more different and had more of a fun feel to show that the magazine wouldn't be just informative but would also give advice and include things that young people would be interested in.

Creating my mock up

Skins advert - colouring effects

This photo was taken in the style of the Skins. To do colouring effects I did this on Photoshop. I had to change Hue and Saturation to between -60 and -70 and add a new layer.


Then pick the colours I wanted to use and altered the picture. To make the image look more like advert for the new series I then added writing and the E4 logo.

Researching and planning your preliminary task – school magazine
For this a plan has to be made about what the magazine cover is going to look like. Fonts and colours have to be taken into consideration because we need to know what is going to attract the consumer. On the cover the rule of thirds has to be taken into account because we need to know how and where the images and writing are going to be set out and we need to know what the main focal point will be. The colour theme also has to be thought about because you want it to look professional and sophisticated so the colour palette has to be right, a theme needs to run through the cover and not just have random colours that don’t compliment each other.

Cover analysis
In the cover analysis we basically had to analyse and compare to random school magazine covers and include everything that we had learnt. We had to discuss whether they used semiotics and how the rule of thirds had been used on the cover. Also talk about the types of fonts that had been used and colours that were being displayed along with the images that were there as well.

Semiotics/Rule of thirds


Rule of thirds
Rule of thirds allows you to align and place where you want writing and images of the cover of the magazine.

On this example the first third has the one woman standing in it. The second third has two women standing in it. The top third has half the woman’s head because she is so tall. The last third has the student in it. The wording at the top has been made symmetrical and is directly in the middle. The wording at the bottom has also been made symmetrical and on both lines ‘St Louise’s’ in the first third.

Semiotics
There are three types of semiotics. These are:
1. Icons – which look like what they represent
2. Symbols – which need to be learned and they don’t look like what they represent
3. Index – which is more suggestive and is connected to what they represent
Semiotics can be used on covers of magazines or in magazines but have can different effects on different people. For example if there was an image of Eminem in a magazine doing something explicit some people could be supportive of it but others could find it offensive therefore semiotics can be used negatively or positively.

Fonts
We have also learnt about different types of font such as

Serif Sans Decorative Script

A A A

This print screen comes from a website that we got given to look at that had a range of different fonts for a range of different occasions.

With the fonts a practice was done on random image from the internet. For that I chose to do a picture that related to the credit crunch. The font that I thought related to that was some from 1001freefonts.com. This is my poster with the writing…

Colour filtering/Colour popping images
Colour filtering is when a certain colour is selected and all the other colours have been made black and white.

In the second image the background has been made black and white and the only thing that has been left in colour is the hand. This is because the hand is then being paid more attention to for the fact that it is stealing from the girl. Font has also been added to this image and has been left in colour as another element that will drawn attention to.

Cloning Images

Cloning images involves taking a section of an image and copying it onto another part of the image.

In the images above of St Marylebone students all the brands have been taken out of the image through cloning. Like the arrows show on the white bag that the ‘Dior’ logo is on the first image but has been taken out of the second. This has also been done on the ‘Zara’ bag and the Nike bag where the ‘Just Do It’ has been removed from the back.

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Image Analysis
Image Analysis looks at the denotation and connotation within the pictures.

Mini Image Analysis
In this example advert the main focuses are the woman and the perfume bottle. The colours of this advert are black and royal blue. The only writing on this advert is the brand name and the name of the perfume. “Midnight Poison” reflects the colours on the advert and there is a tag line at the bottom that reads “A new Cinderella is born”. The connotations of the colours that are used are magical and mystical and maybe even lust or passion. The blue in the advert could also represent water which could have a connotation of drowning which looks like what the woman is doing as the angle is high.