Tasks

After thoroughly analysing the magazine pages I had chosen to look at, I was able to get a better sense of what my magazines needed to involve, I used this information aswell as the rough sketches I had drawn to get a good start on my minor task. I started by taking the image for the front page of the minor task which required a medium close up of a person (in this case a student). This covers the whole of the background, and I then overlaid texts and titles accordingly. When I was overlaying these pieces I had to be sure that the text font and colours had to be consistent and had to compliment each other nicely, as this magazine had to give off a friendly attitude as it is available to students at a variety of ages. I didn't need to edit this image at all because the lighting bounces off of the subjects skin evenly and shadows only flatter her. I particularly like her expression as it is not overbearing or over the top.

For the contents page I had a variety of different ideas, I wanted to show an image that represented the school, through people being there, or simply the building, or even a logo. Eventually I took a selection of images from around my own school and put them together in a collage to cover the background of the contents. For the foreground of the contents, I created a series of pages which I thought would be suitable for a school magazine. These included: course guides, thoughts for the week, student art and pages about the sport teams.

For the major task, I chose the name Bass for the magazine, the magazine would feature a new band who have just recieved a number one in the charts. I chose to name the band Metropolis after deciding to experiment with projections. This involved using the film Metropolis and then projecting it on to the band members faces, during this time I also took other group pictures for the interview page and perhaps the contents and individual shots. I edited the image for the front page slightly to add more contrast and turning it black and white. On top of this image, I made sure the magazine title was big and bold so that it stands out against the background, aswell as any other title on the page.

To make the contents page more interesting I added an image I had taken previously to the background and blurred it to make it look out of focus. I then decided to add another image of Metropolis on top of it which I also turned black and white and adjusted its transparency to make the reader look again as they try to work out what it is. I then made the writing on top of it stand out by ensuring that it was bold and the correct colour.

The double page spread had to include an interview and images of the band. Seeing as I had chosen the band to be a recently famous one, I decided to base the interview on how they became famous and how being famous now has affected them, the interview acts as an introduction to the band. The left had page involves a group image, along with short profiles of each member of the band, showing their full name and date of birth etc. Along with this profile is a close up image of their face, one of which was cropped from another image and the others just close up shots.