Preliminary Task

To produce the front cover and the contents page I used Adobe Indesign. The purpose of this task is to produce a front cover magazine for a school. Firstly drafting our ideas on to paper then actrully taking the picture ourselves and importing them on to our front covers. Using Adobe Indesign allowed us to explore variety of fonts and colours. We were responsible for however we wanted our magazine layout to look like. This included techniques like a strapline, masthead, hybrid, taglines and advertorial. Our main centre picture had to be in a medium shot. To make my magazine look more appealing I experimented with different swatches matching the fonts with the image.

I have chosen to put an advertisment for books with voucher on the front cover to attract the readers attention, because this is a school magazine it is likely it would attract students who like to read.

The contents page however is presented in simple form and does not consists of any images. The purpose for a content page is to show the audience what the magazine includes. If I was to improve my content page I would add a small image to show what is expected in that page. Reason why will do this is because when buying a magazine consumers tend to look at the front cover and content page before buying it so therefore this should be the most detailed and outstanding part of a magazine.

Magazine Tutorial Cover

To create my finish piece of my front cover we used adobe inDesign. During the magazine tutorial I have learnt how to arrange my magazine to a certain size, i.e changing the bleed and slug of the page in order for it to be an appropriate size for a magazine. I learnt how to insert pictures and add box texts using rectangles and places the picture in the box, picking up and arranging them to make the magazine front cover look appealing.

It is important to first add ur main centre picture and the masthead first before adding other texts. The tutorial taught me how to change the font of the texts and changing the colour to match the same colour of the picture. Also how to send images behind texts so that the background of the texts are not just simply but eye catching.

Overall this task helped me as to when I create my finally piece i will have an idea using techniques i have just learnt.

Camera Shots

17th Sept 2009

We experimented with different types of camera shots. Different ways in which effects the image itself. Different types of shots we experiemented with were:

1. Long-shot




2. Close-up






3. Low-shot





4. High-angle