Research and Planning; masthead practice

When choosing my font for my magazine, I went on the website dafont to help me choose a unique, eye catching font which will appeal to the teenagers in college.

I experimented with them by putting my favourites onto a word document and seeing which one looks best. 

Research and Planning; original College magazine image

This is the original version on my mid shot for my college magazine cover. Im going to photoshop this image to get rid of the background so that he will be the main focus of the front cover without a background which s very distracting.

To do list

- original college magazine image
-masthead practice
-updates on magazine

Research and Planning; edited mid shot for college magazine

This is my edited version on my mid shot image of Alex for my college magazine. I need to yet add a background so that it will look more eye catching and blend into my background

Research and Planning; College magazine draft

Here is an image of what I'm hoping my college magazine will look like, it had a mid shot of Alex quite large on the left hand side of the page, with a masthead in large, bold blue text saying hyde times, with the college logo on the top right hand corner.

The sections on the sides will be;

-competitions 

-top 5 must haves for college

-pupil of the week 

-interviews with Andy the media teacher a

research and Planning; Slutty Cheryl cole and Magazine Cheryl cole

  In Image 1 Cheryl is wearing light pink clothing. The Top has lace on to show how feminine she is and the jacket has loads of gems and sparkles on to show the glamor. Therefore the audience would be women who are into glamour and fashion. Whereas in Image 2 Cheryl is in black leather top which is quite seductive.
In image 1 she has a blank facial expression but still looks innocent at the same time and innocent.
then in image 2 she has her tongue out licking a metal object seductively
In Image 1 her hair is done very casual yet look like she's going to go out and her make up is simple yet looks like it  has a lot of effort. In Image 2 she has very heavy black eye make up which has been smudged and bright red lipstick on which is a very seductive colour.
Image 2 is very seductive as there is water over her which is making her makeup run and while she's licking the metal object which could arouse certain members of the readers.
In image one she has both her hands her head holding parts of her hair up which makes her look even more innocent. then in image 2 her hand is up to her mouth holding the object.

Research and Planning; Front cover analysis

The masthead of the magazine is called 'company' and its done in Big bold text to draw attention to the magazine, also as its in pink it would attract girly girls who are into fashion. The main image is of a fashionable girl dressed for summer. there are a variety of slogans  such as ' make up and party' which will be for girls who want a new look for when the go out instead of the same boring loo, also the other texts have a summer theme, feminine approach  to stand out on the cream background/the girl so it will attract girls with to the magazine because of the style f the magazine suits their fashion sense.
Also each section of an article is done in a different front to demonstrate the variety if information inside which could be to highlight and attract different girls to the magazine,as it  goes from make up tutorials in 'party invitation ' style to making money is a bold plain serious text.However, there is 'Ibiza' across the bottom on the magazine is a light pink colour, to show the how big of a vacation it would be and maybe symbolise the drinks they would get.

Research and Planning; In design tutorial

1. I opened Indesign and clicked document and changed the column number to 3 so i had a magazine layout.
 2. I then clicked the 'T' to create a text box across all 3 columns and wrote ' The Title' then changed the text size to 72
 3. after that I clicked the 'T' again and made a text box in the 1st column and wrote a brief paragraph describing myself.
4. Next, i used the rectangle frame tool to upload a picture of Ed Sheeran onto my article then dragged him into the selected image area

To do list

- Cheryl cole
-Indesign tutorial
- Front cover analysis

Research and Planning; Photoshop challenge

1. To begin with I opened a blank document on photoshop by clicking file, then new
2. Then I clicked on the 'T' symbol and wrote "AS media studdies" then highlighted the text and made it font size 24 in the 'century gothic' font
3.Thirdly, I changed the colour of the text by highlighting it and selecting the colour red at the side tool bar. Then dragged it into the centre of the page.
4. I made the background colour blue by going to the top tool bar, clicked layer, new fill layer then clicked solid colour
5. next I made the text have a shadow drop, I did this by going to layer, layer style then drop shadow the 4th down.
6. As I went to google to get the image of the man, then I clicked and dragged him onto my canvas and cut his background out by quick select tool and then deleted it.
7. Then I changed the colour of his hair by using the paint brush, selecting a colour off the right hand side tool bar and had the brush at size 9 and carefully went over his hair and beard in pink and purple
8. After, I went over his glasses and made them into sunglasses, I used the circle tool to create the shape of his glasses and made them blue
9. lastly, i used the rectangle tool to create a red border for my piece.

Research and Planning; skin tutorial

1. I opened photoshop and uploaded the image

2. I then applied the spot healing tool t remove her blemishes 

3.then I changed her hair colour to a red/brown colour 

4. After that I gave her Rosie Red checks by using the paintbrush tool, however I made it softer so it wasn't extremely obvious

5.I then used the painbrush tool again but made the brush hard to apply eyeliner, and reduced the size of the brush to 4 so it was realistic

6. I finished off by giving her red lips by again using the paint brush but on a size 6-10 size brush, then chose the colour white and reduced the brush size to 2 and coloured her teeth white 

Research and Planning; CD cover

1. Firstly, I opened up an image of a CD, french horn and music sheet. Then went onto the cd layer and used the marquee tool which allowed us to select the cd, then used the mouse tool to drag the CD onto the music note background.

2. I made the CD smaller and placed it at the bottom left hand side and changed the colour of it to a light blue by clicking layer, layer style then colour overlay.

3. I clicked onto the French horn layer and did the same but used the quick selected tool due to it being a funny shape. After dragging it onto my music layer I changed the colour to a bras colour.

4. Next, I used the 'T' box to create a text box and wrote Jordan-Mary Goodall onto it and made the text larger and a different font

5. I then added music notes and placed the coming out of the Horn 

6. Finally, I edited the background by going onto layer and trying different things and it the end I made mine into tiles, to be unique.

                                                                     

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