Evaluation on my school magazine

The techniques I used to produce my school magazine are photography and Photoshop. To start I researched some magazines that I like and written up what I like, don’t like, how they used colours effectively and attracted their target audience and so on. One I had done this I chosen the magazine I like the most and wanted to emulate for my magazine.

To start emulating it I first wen to and took pictures of what I thought would look good what i thought would catch the audience eye and what photos would be good to use to look like the emulation of the original magazine.

Once I had done my research and taken my photos I went into Photoshop and started my front cover emulation. To start I selected my photos and began to crop each person out of the background and layer the three main people on my front cover up. This had taken me a couple of attempts to get the pictures cropped out just right and layer them so it looked as so they were standing with each other and not edited.

The next stage I started on the fonts where I went on to the DaFont web site and searched fonts to attract my target audience. I found it very tricky getting the font onto my cover as it needed a lot of editing to get it onto the cover with no parts that looked unnatural.

The last stage was to put on the background and the little bits of text. I started with my background where I used one of my pictures where it had a tree in the background  so I cropped it down to the tree and filtered it a couple of time and changed its colour to a dark pink this gave off a camo effect that I liked. Adding the little bits of text wasn’t too hard I just added the text into a text box and edited it to look different to the rest of the fonts and stand out.

Once my front cover was done I moved onto my Constance page this was not as challenging but I still found it difficult I research other magazines not specific to sport but I still thought it would be interesting to look at the different layouts, I found a layout I like in a fishing magazine.

This influenced my ideas to have a block colour bar to be running the side and across the top. Then I had put a picture off one of the people from my main cover to make a link between the two pages, to make the page numbers and the info for each page I what I thought looked quite abstract colours a cross between neon and glow filters on another tree.

I found doing all of this quite hard but also a good as I had learned to use Photoshop, more photography skills and how much effort is involved in producing a magazine.

And to conclude I feel that I had put in a good amount of effort but I also feel that I could have done more towards my out come but I was overall pleased with it.