School Magazine

This is my front cover and contents page of my prelimary task for my media coursework which was to create a school magazine.

My main colours throughout each page were black and red, becuase they are the main colours associated with St. Mark's. I chose to make this a weekly magazine becuase it keeps everyone in touch with what is going on in and around the school. The magazine is free becuase I don't feel as if it should have been paid for, and the target audience perhaps wouldn't have paid for it. I chose the name 'St. Mark's Weekly' becuase it is recognisable straight away and the audience know what magazine it is. In the left third of my magazine I have placed the school logo, so that it is clear what the magazine is for. I also placed the titles and descriptions of the top stories in the magazine so that it would attract the audience.

I kept my contents page simple but kept the colours the same as the front page. I separated the pictures from the page titles but still made sure that the pictures related to the contents page.

Another School Prospectus Cover

This is my analysis for a different school prospectus cover, which was my homework task.

'Healthy' Magazine Analysis...

These are my four tasks which were set in class.
I had to analyse four magazine covers.
The first one was a women's health magazine.
The second and third were university magazines.
The fourth one was my own school sixth form prospectus.

Nature Magazine..

This is my front cover for a nature magazine which I created as part of a task to help me learn how to use photoshop. We were given cameras to go out and take pictures for our front cover. Out of about twenty photos, I chose this one, because it is a very natural photo and represetns the time of year and the season of the distribution of the magazine. I chose the colour orange because it is a neautral colour and also represents the natural feel of the magazine. The title 'Country Style' is at the top of the page in bigger and bolder font so that the readers know exactly what it's called, and also the kind of idea of what it is going to be about, and the genre of the magazine, which is clearly 'nature'. The price of the magazine I chose was £1.10 because it is nt a commercial magazine with a large number of readers, it will only be targetting a certain audience. I used photoshop to create my magazine cover and just used the photo as the background and unedited as I felt that it was already adiquate as my main picture. I used the text tool to create the writing for the title and cover/selling lines, and just edited the font and size, and also moved them to where I wanted them on the page.

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Monday Lesson 3

In Monday lesson 3 we learnt how to use photoshop. We were taught how to cut thing sout of photos using a magnetic lassoo tool, also how to add and delete layers, and also how to add and edit text.

Using photoshop...

I feel fairly confident in using photoshop as I have used it before in  my GCSE Media coursework. I know how to add text, crop photos and edit colours and effects of photos.

Skills being assessed for this piece of coursework...

• Framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate
• Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate
• Shooting material appropriate to the task set
• Selecting mise-en-scéne including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting
• Manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing

Media Lesson Evalutaion

Today in my media lesson we learnt how to use Blogger, and we were all told the details of our first piece of A-Level media coursework (: