Contents Page

Magazine Front Cover

Magazine Double Page Spread

Photoshoot Issues

Due to a personal life trip to Scotland I organised my photoshoot in the first week of Easter to avoid missing out on the opportunity. Unfortunately my participants did not keep to the agreed time and subsequently I was unable to do the shoot on time. A re-shoot with different participants will take place mid-week, meanwhile I have worked on the layout and format of my magazine as normal but am so far unable to add images.

Magazine Mock Up

Magazine Cover: Preliminary

Genre Shift: Magazine Task

Due to a lack of workable materials I have switched my Genre of music for my magazine from techno/house music to Indie Rock music instead.

Photoshop: Before and After

Here we have a picture I intend to use for my magazine, however it looks too unprofessional as the lighting is too bright and there is visible rubbish present on the ground which we would not see in a professional photoshoot.

I opened the picture in photoshop and will now adjust the contrast and brightness to produce a better looking image, to make the red and white colours in particular to stand out less starkly from each other.
After doing this I used the spot healing tool to remove the rubbish from the grass around the players.

Above we can see that while the picture remains largely the same the minute changes do a lot to make it look closer to professional quality.

Photo List (Incomplete)

Photo analysis

The above is one of the pictures which I will definitel be using for me preliminary task of a school newsletter; the photo shows an active and sporty atmosphere for the school and captures the school field quite nicely along with it.
The photo may require slight alterations in photoshop due to the slight glare coming from the foremost players shirt on the white areas, so photoshop may be applied to make this less of a flare.

Above is an example of a picture I will not be using as the angle is bad and does not show either the Ipad screen of James' face and so does not give a good representation of the scene at hand compared to the other images of the same set up, errors which cannot be corrected through photo manipulation.

Mock Up Magazine

Genre Decision: Music Mag Task

This is an example of a magazine cover featuring one of my chosen genres of music which I may use, in this case Daft Punk who are a techno music group. This magazine has rather bright colours being reflected off the costumes as a conscious choice and also a glowing border around other parts of the magazine, indicative of the rave and club scene that their music is familiarly associated with.

Prospectus Example

Prospectus

A very warm welcome to Deyes High School. I hope this prospectus will provide an overall picture of our impressive educational opportunities and a glimpse of life at the school.   At Deyes High we are proud of our school, the students and their achievements. We pride ourselves on good relationships that exist at all levels and which are based on trust, openness, teamwork and respect. There is a "buzz" of enthusiasm about the place. People are curious and keen to try out new ideas. There is a strong sense of optimism and pride in the school's successes and in our capacity to develop and improve. We have high expectations and a strong sense of achievement. It is a great privilege for me to be a Headteacher of a school which has a strong association with success.   Our most valuable asset is our people. We have talented staff who work as a cohesive team putting successful learning at our core. As a result the school seeks to maintain its status as an extremely popular school by setting out to excel in everything we do. We want all of our students to flourish and fulfil their potential. We set challenging targets for everyone and we have seen improved results over a number of years. We have been awarded for achieving some of the best GCSE results, including English and Mathematics in the country. The school is one of the largest High Schools in Sefton with 1440 students including 300 in the sixth form. In September 2006 we became a Specialist Science College, which has led to even higher standards, more improved teaching and learning and updated accommodation.

The above is a prospectus which would be useful to have an example of for my Newsletter.

Preliminary task: Ideology

For my Ideology, to be shown on my preliminay task of a school newsletter, I will show the more, what I believe, positive aspects of the school, such as the use of modern equipment and the high qualification success rates of the school. To demonstrate this I will use results from previous years and images showing the students in the school performing the relevant tasks, such as performing a science experiment or playing sports.

Ideology

Ideology is the set of idea and goals behind any piece of media, ie a newsletter, film, tv show etc. The ideology is what the piece of media wishes to convey and demonstrate to the audience.

Music Mag Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEY3a3pCS281Z1UyZXNTaDN1dzQwMVE6MQ
As research for my magazine task I have created a questionnaire for people to fill in so as to get an idea as to what sort of content people look for in a music magazine and to determine what sort of age range are interested in purchasing a music magazine.

Newsletter Analysis

The school newsletter has a rather obvious overuse of text; the text is presented with little creativity or thought put into its placement. This also includes the front cover, which should be used to catch attention on a regular magazine while here the page is dominated by walls of text rather than an image.

The text choice used is also rather bland and uninteresting, while the text needs to be uniform and at least semi-formal, the text chosen is very bland and uninteresting which bores the reader and makes people uninterested in continuing to read it.

A bigger problem however is the lack of a focused audience; some segments seem aimed at the pupils of the school, others at parents and governors and even more parts are aimed seemingly at children. These segments have no proper layout and all run together, which seems like the newsletter has a lack of any kind of focus for its audience rather than simply choosing one and going with that, it tries to cover all bases but results in the newsletter seeming scattered and incomplete.

Overall the newsletter has a very flawed design overall and could have benefitted for a more concrete layout rather than trying to appeal to every possible reader at once, like picking whether to make it for pupils or family before starting.

Magazine Genre

For my music magazine I have to genres decided on what to base it on; the first genre and my first choice is house or techno music, from artists such as Daft Punk, however this is a rather niche market and so I have another genre decided on, in this case Indie Music, just in case I can't produce significant materials to work ith for m first choice.

Music Magazine Intro

The goal of this unit will be to use photoshop to create a front page, contents page and a double page spread for a music magazine of my own design. This will require a photo shoot done by me in person and will need many blog posts of evidence to show how and why I made my decisions.