Final piece

I produced a final copy of my palimanary task which was to create a school magazine, i based it on Lordswood Girls and chose to represent the media aspect of the school as it is a specialist media arts center. The colour scheme i chose was yellow and blue as i wanted the magazine to resemble the school colours. As the magazine is based on a media school i needed to reflect that idea within my front cover, that's why i included a film strip of images of schoolchildren almost as if it was a kicker to fit into the conventions of a magazine. my straplines are all media based which is why they include subjects like new camera equipment and exam tips for media examinations as well results for the subject. I also kept the fonts to a limit. i wanted the mast head to be more penciled and creative so it links with the main image, however the rest of the straplines are more straight cut as i want it to be straight to the point as that's what media i am trying to convey.

After i edited my main image of the school girl i put it against a blue background to represent Lordswood Girls as those are the school colours. I then added a masthead, a skyline and a film strip at the bottom of the page, almost like a kicker.

editing image

I took the original image of the mid shot of a school girl holding a camera. I cropped out the background on Photoshop so just the school girls frame was left, i then went into filters and added an effect on her to make the image look more creative. I added a penciled yellow effect on the image as the yellow suggested school colours, especially against the blue background. I liked the penciled effect as it's different and looks more attractive to look at.

i took pictures of a school girl from lordswood holding a camera as if she was going to take a picture in orde to demonstrate media in the school. I insured that she was located in a class room near techniqual equiptment so that readers would know that Lordswood is a media arts specialist school.

Keira Knightly magazine front cover

I made a magazine front cover for a magazine called 'dwell' the main image consists of keira knightly therefore all the conventions revolved around that. I understood that magazines have various codes and conventions that should be followed in order to suit the genre, for example no more than three colours were used in this magazine front cover so that the conventions followed that of a real magazines. I produced this front cover in Publisher as text works better when layered onto a image rather than alternitives such as Photoshop. My magazine front cover also needed to reflect the aspirations of my target audience which whom are elderly teens to women in their thrities, i feel that most of those women aspire to be like Keira Knightly, threrfore i used her in my magazine exclusive.