Final Version of the Cover Page and Content Page

Improvements

I have asked my tearcher to give a comment about the student magazine which I have created last night. The ideas and points which either I have to look out for and maybe improve on are:

• there is no mention about the price
• change the title eg. make it bigger
• Summer School, places highlights straight under Summer not in the middle

Student Magazine

This is what I came up with after playing around with the photo. May you please comment if i should leave the cover as it is, or any changes should be made?

Photo for the School Magazine

I have asked several people to comment on my blog in order to find which picture I should use for the cover magazine. Most of people agreed that I should use the first photo. As the result, I have used photoshop in order to make the background in black and white in order to put more concentration on Tom and Tim.

Photoshoot!

HELP ME TO CHOOSE THE PICTURE FOR THE STUDENT MAGAZINE, add a comment please

I would like to use this opportunity to say big THANK you to ''models'' which I have used for the photoshoot.

Photoshop: Experience

During the lesson, one of the tasks had been to play around with photoshop in order to get to know the programme and different functions better. Our class, had to choose and select a randomn celebrity and create a music cover magazine. These are the steps which I have followed in order to create the product, which you can see above.

• choose a person ( preferably mid close up)
• add a barcode, in order to make the music magazine look more realistic
• choose or create a title for the magazine, in this case I have called it M, M for music
• put the price and issues number and date of the magazine
• key content- what would the customers read about in the magazine

To conlude, I have certainly feel more confident with using photoshop in order to create two magazines for our media project. In the next weeks or so, I will be able to finish my student magazine, and it would very nice to find YOUR feedback about it :D

Photoshop Activity

In this task I have learnt about different tasks and able to:

Use basic tool functions and navigation
Use layers
Select and crop images
Change colour and use filters
Add text and canvas

To start with, we had to use an example image in order to do the task. Our class had to follow through different stages:

Stage 1: Selecting the grab
Stage 2:Changing the background
Stage 3:Adding the lemons
Stage 4: Cropping the image
Stage 5: Adding canvas
Stage 6: Addind text
Stage 7: Other filters
Stage 8: Saving our work

My experience

I have used photoshop for the first time in my life, and to be honest, found the task pretty difficult. But by going through the stages which were set, not only,I was able to  finish the task but  also gained experience for the magazine which I would have to edit using the same programme. 

Cover and Title Page

I have designed two different cover and title pages, may you choose your favourite one

Content Page Layout Drafts

 Title Page Drafts

Title for the magazine

May you please choose the font of the title, which I would use for the school magazine. I have created a poll and majority of people had voted for calling the magazine- VIEWPOINT.

Issues with the poll

The first poll which I have created is not working, instead of adding another poll on the blog, instead I would add the questionnare as one of the gadgets on the right hand sf the blog.

My Poll

May you please do my poll, in order to find out the appropriate name for the school magazine. There are variety of options- choose your favourite one. Thank you

What shall I call my school magazine?
	Visions
	Viewpoint
	Footprints
	Esquela
	Edmundia
pollcode.com free polls

Results

Instead of asking students to visit the blog, I have printed out the servey out in order for them to fill. As the result, I have asked ten people from different age groups, different sexes to fill the questionnaire in. The results were as followed:

For the school magazine, what would you, as the student, would be the most interested in?

How much  are prepared to pay for one magazine?

Should the production of the magazine be..?

At would age the magazine should aim at?

Target audience

Student Magazine: Questionnaire

It would be very helpful to find out what types of magazines the students are interested in. As the result I have created a questionnare in order to gain better understaning on what to include in the content page and also the front page of the magazine.

In each section, may you include preferably one or two different answers. ( mo more please)

For the school magazine, what would you, as the student, would be the most interested in?

              Highlight Area Places to visit

Music CD Reviews         "Car of the Month''

 Q & A section                 Gadget update

News                                University Advice

Fashion                             Sport

Jokes section                    School Events Update


How much  are prepared to pay for one magazine?

70p- £1.00            £1.00-1.50
 
1.50-£2.00            £2.00-£2.50

Should the production of the magazine be..?


weekly                  monthly
once a term           once a year


Target audience


Male                     Female


Both


At would age the magazine should aim at?


11-12( Year 7-8)           13-15( Year 9-11)


16-18 ( Year 12-13)       All

Extra Comments could be included, if needed

Comparison of different Student Mags

College Life

• The magazine is issued in Septermber 2008
• The target audience of the magazine would be the teachers, students, parents and the 'friends' of the college
• Highlights the success of the previous year ( exam success, ccf inspection and college development plan)
• Informs the audience on the new staff joining the college and new head boy and girl.
• Includes different events and activities which the school had undertaken the previous year ( element picnincs, midsummer festival and poetry prom)
• As St. Edmunds is a boarding school, there are couple of articles concentrating on boarders trips and activities,which include trips to Cambridge, Stevenage, Paintballing and Wake Boarding.
• St Edmunds Sport section- includes sports in the range athletics and cricket up to scuba diving.
• Prep School events

As the tagret audience is very wide, as the result, different types of arguments are included. Ranging from strong academic up to articles written by the students.

Common Sense

• Issued in march 2006
• Living it up in Luton- articles include on where the students should go out. Best bites of.. Pubs n Clubs
• Consequences of drinking and smoking in order to infrorm the students in order to be very careful.
• Many articels are aimed who concerned about the unhealthy lifestyle- articles 'Weight a Minute' and 'Anorexia'
• The students had used serveys by asking their friends-'How much do you expect to be earning in 10 years'

Student ID

• issue no.11 (60p.)
• Many articles about humour in order to cheer up the audience- articles 'Comic Relief'
• Careers Fair- concerned about the students future
• Diffrents facts and quotes used ny the students- 'Gareth Facts' and 'Your Messages...'
• Awareness and impacts of Cancer
• Informing about future events and parties being held at the College

Differences and Similarities between the magazines

Content
College Life- academicaly focused in promote the school and it services
Common Sense- very informative. especially in order to give awareness to the students of drugs and alcohol
Student ID- less formal as the articles had been written by the students

Target Audience
College Life- wide range of audience- parents, students, potential parents and students, friends of the college
Common Sense- sixth form students
Student ID-sixth form students

Images
College Life- wide range of pictures used, very good quality as taken by the professional
Common Sense- picture style very similar to Student ID, the pictures had been taken from internet
Student ID-less pictures used but also taken from other resources eg. internet

Cost
College Life- free
Common Sense-free
Student ID- 60p.

Action Plan

Over the next four weeks, the task is to create the cover for the music magazine. On the first page- content and title is to be present. As it's a pre-lim task, it is crucial to complete the task in order to gain the experience but also get to know the equipment and different programmes more.

The action plan for the next four weeks would include:

Week 1

7th. November

• create a blog and get to know to functions of the webstite abit more
• choose an appropriate design and choose the colour and the size of the font
• create a questionnaire in order to gain some feedback from other student
• start textual analysis
• photo shoot? if all the tasks are finished and completed  then photo shoot could be arranged in order to get ahead

Week 2

14th. November

• Textual analysis of magazines
• Front Cover
• Finish off the Photoshoot
• Find out the best font for the title- servey

Week 3

21st. November

• analyse the audience's feedback
• front cover tweaks
• contents
• create layout designs

Week 4

• Evaluation- Analysis

28th. November

Perliminary Task Deadline: 2nd. December