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Magazine Cover - Media Studies
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Magazine Project
Production PhasesBy
Emily Spencer
Magazine Cover
First of all, I opened my own photo’s. I took a photo of a whole group who look like
they are all gossiping/ talking about something – I wanted to do this to
show a close net college community.
I cut out my image then copied and pasted it into an A4 sized Photoshop
document.
Then, by using the magic wand tool I cut the background out so I just had
the students. I also, at the very edge of the students used a blurred rubber to
soften the edges and make it look more real.
I decided that the image would be best at the bottom – this design was used from
one of my flat plans.
Next, I used the drop shadow tool on my image, I did this because the photo
looked to sharp, by using the drop shadow effect I managed to soften the
image and make it seem more real.
I then inserted my masthead into the Photoshop document, I had to copy
and paste it across because the masthead opened up into a clipboard
image.
Then, I centred it at the top, although I didn’t do any research on mastheads being
placed at the top and the picture at the bottom: when I was creating my flat plans I came up with the idea and decided to try
it.
I thought that the background looked to plain just to be white, so I used the solid colour tool to find a
colour that would look right. I used a fairly pale colour because the
masthead wouldn’t show up and the picture would be hard to see.
Next, I went onto “barcode generator” http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php
I made it my own by using the college magazines name to have under the scanning
lines.
I used print screen to paste it into my Photoshop document. Using the
rectangular marquee tool I cut out the barcode and placed it at the right hand
bottom.
Next, I used my own image to edit in Microsoft office, I used this
programme so I could make the image circular and have a framed border. I
used the tool “metal oval”
I then copied the image over to Photoshop and placed it into the top right hand corner which I planned in
one of my flat plans.
Again, I used the sight “dafont” to create cover story titles. I used the font “rough
typewriter”
Again I print screened into the Photoshop document and used the
rectangular marquee tool to cut out “fashion geek” then used the
magic wand tool to cut around the image so I just had the text.
I then placed the “fashion geek” underneath the picture. I think by
doing this you can see what the cover stories are clearly enough and can
grab the readers attention.
I did exactly the same process for the titles: “the bands rumours finally
revealed”, “ win free tickets to NERO gig” and “students visit fashion week”.
I didn’t put this idea into my flat plan but I researched some more magazine covers
and saw the idea to have a line underneath the masthead. So I used the rectangle tool to create a line as the line tool wasn’t thick
enough.
I then placed it underneath the masthead.
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