In what ways does your

media product use,

develop or challenge

forms and conventions

of real media

products?

As my preliminary task, I designed a school magazine. It

was really basic and didn’t look very good because my

skills on Photoshop were not good at all because I had

never used it before.

The cutting out on my photo was really bad and it was

a very basic layout with not much on it because I didn’t

know how to layer things or make writing colourful,

change the background colour other than the default

basic one or edit the text once I had written it. I also did

a contents page which was again a very basic layout

and the colour of the background was completely

different to the front cover so it looked really bad.

The magazine looked really unprofessional and didn’t

look good. Since then, my Photoshop skills have got much better and I now know how to work Photoshop. I

have produced my final music magazine with front

cover, contents page and double page spread.

My magazine is called ‘euphoria’ and target audience

for my magazine is 15+. It is for both a male and female

audience.

I created my masthead at first just using a basic

Photoshop text effect and I didn’t think it looked good

so I followed instructions from a website to create a

much more advanced masthead to really help my

masthead stand out. I got the instructions from this

website.

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-

text/text-effects/light-burst/

The theme of my background colour is black. This is

because this looked the best with my masthead

because it is very bright and it looks good with a dark

background. My masthead is at the top of my

magazine in the centre.

This is my mast head:

The first image on my magazine didn’t look right because

the model had a burgundy jacket on and the cutting out wasn’t very good.

So I changed my model and front cover image and now it

works really well with the theme of my magazine. The

cutting out is much better on the image. The image is a

mid shot picture.

This is my front cover image before and after it

has been cut out:

As you can see from the original photo I took away

all the spots on the models face. I made the image brighter so it stands out more on the front of a

magazine. I also took away the bags under the

models eyes by using the clone tool and taking

pieces of brighter, better skin and replacing it

where the dark patches were on the models face.

This is the front cover completed:

The colours of my masthead on the effect is blue and

purple so I have used these colours and white throughout

my magazine to keep a style so it all works together. I have

done the same with the fonts on my magazine front cover

and used it in my contents page and double page spread

so the magazine keeps a style. The fonts I used throughout

the magazine are ‘impact’ ‘National First Font Dotted’ ‘Prisoner SF’ ‘Zolano Sans BTN’. Tomorrow tommorrow

This is my final Front Cover:

This is my final Contents Page:

This is my final Double Page Spread:

As you can see there is a theme with my

magazine front cover, contents page and

double page spread. The colours throughout

the magazine are the same, and I have used

the same fonts throughout too. There is also a

similar layout design to help it all fit together.

All of this creates the theme throughout the

magazine.