Preliminary Task Draft.

When producing this draft of the front cover, I learnt that you should put the main stories on the left third of the cover, as the reader reads from left to right, and when magazines are placed on shelves only the left third is shown so this is what the reader will spot first and what will need to interest the reader. I also learnt that using red stands out, instead of using green, this is important when being on the shelves with other competing magazines.

Nature Magazine.

I’ve used Photoshop to create this front page cover of a new nature magazine, I learnt how to merge layers to create one image, I used merging to make the leaves and the raspberry one image, I inserted text to make the title, I used a white border behind the text to make it stand out against the background picture. I also used a bevel and emboss effect to make the text stand out. I think this is a suitable magazine cover as it will stand out on the self and looks attractive to the reader.

Brief.

Preliminary exercise: Produce the front page of a new school/collage magazine, featuring a photo of a student in medium close up plus some appropriately laid out text and a mast head. Additionally candidates must produce a mock up at the layout of the context page to demonstrate their grasp of the programme.

Main task: Produce the front page, contexts and double page spread of a new music magazine

Deadlines

Preliminary task: Friday 8 November

Rough draft of the magazine: Friday 24 January

Final drafts: Friday 28 February

Evaluation and blogs: Friday 28 march