School Magazine

At the start of my course, I am going to create a cover and contents page of my schools magazine. This will help me to develop software skills and be able to use Photoshop accurately when I start making my music magazine. It is a good idea to make one before hand as a draft to get an idea of what I need to improve on and give myself any feedback from what I created. The techniques that I will use in order to make this magazine will be the same I will use for my music magazine. This magazine will not be as good as my music magazine as it will be more of a draft then the actual project. I will improve on any mistakes and elaborate more in what I do.

Title of the magazineSubheading

Main image links to magazine as it’s an image of a student in uniform

Exclusive gossip-appealing to the audience

Special edition to attract the target audience

Wanting the reader to read on out of curiosity Getting readers

involved

Colour scheme-matching red and white to go with the school logo

Analysis of another school magazine

School magazine cover and contents page

On the title for the magazine and contents page, I used the colour dark blue with white as it is the main colour for Preston Manor High schools tie, uniform and colour code. On Photoshop I used drop shadow, inner glow and outer glow. On warp text I used flag to give it a wavy effect. For the first letter of the titles I used the text ‘Palace Script MT’ . The reason for why I made these decisions is because it links well with the school and its logo as the way the title goes from low to high shows the progress and achievement for students from early years to late.

I cropped out the picture using ‘quick selection tool’ on Photoshop and cropped out the whole green background. This made it easy for me as it selected the background and let me crop it out accurately without having to erase small parts. This was the advantage of using a green screen behind my model. I then dragged the image onto this background which is a mixture of blue and white.

Original image

At first I added the basics on the front page such as stories on the side and what to expect in the magazine. It seemed dull and there was no website or anything that the audience can get extra information from. Also the top of the title was a bit cut out and didn’t fit in properly

I made a few changes and added a shape which was eye catching and put over it “Win a free iPad”. Both these things related and it would be more appealing to the audience. I also added a website at the top of my cover for any other information and moved the title down so that it is clearer for the readers.

Conclusion

I learnt many new things on Photoshop whilst creating my school magazine. Such as different tools, effects and colours I can use to create new ideas. This will help me during the process of my music magazine. I have learnt from my changes to include the important information on the magazine, include important additional images and make it more appealing and catchy to the audience.