Front Cover Magazine Pictures

This was a image I was going to use but it didn't look like any of the prossesional magazine I had seen:

What I like about this picture is that it convays ideas of a good friendship.

In addition this is also the right size picture for a magazine front cover

This is another picture I wanted to use for my magazine front cover:

I was going to use this because it had the right number of people in it

That they were looking directly at the camera

I ended up not using because it was not the right shape for a magazine front cover

This is the picture I used for my front cover:

I used this because:

It had a feel of friendship and communtiy

The people in the picture look very happy and it would cheer them

After I cropped it it was magazine shape.

It was my favorite picture.

Emulated Front Covers

My Inspiration for my School Magazine Front Cover came from these following professional magazines:

What I like about the SHOUT front cover was that:
The masthead stands out at you
The main story go over the top of the main image
The way that the thing you could WIN is in a callout circle


From this magazine what I am going to incorporate is:
The puffs and cover stories are going over the main image
Use of different colours
And
Call outs to get the readers attention

What I like about this magazine:
The fact that there is more than just one person in the front cover
The masthead is caps locks so it stands out a lot
I also like how they have used a realistic, scenic background

From this magazine what I'm going to incorporate is:
How there is more than one person in the shot to give the magazine more of community feel
Having masthead in a bold colour and font
and
by using an interesting, scenic background of a school location.

Thing I like about this magazine:
I like that the masthead is in a bold font and that it is behind the head of the cover star suggesting people don't need to read the name because they are regular reader.
I also like how COSMOPOLITAN uses only three colours for the typography's colour.
I also like the face that the bestselling stories are in the boldest and brightest fonts.

What I'm going to incorporate in my magazine:
If I was to put my magazine into production then my main audience would be regular readers so I would have the idea of this magazine
I will also change the size, colour and layout of the font to make the audience know what stories are important and to highlight on the selling points.
I am going to keep a house style in my contents page and my front cover because then it looks more professional.

Terminology I've Learnt So Far...

Media Text - any form of media product from TV to film to magazines to websites.

Media Language - subject specific language that is used inside the media industry and by those who study (eg. puff, masthead, close up, establishing shot and shot reverse shot).

Codes - a system of signs - verbal, aural or visual (used to convey meaning).

Convention - a genrally accepted custom or established rule (eg. a close up is used to show emotion on a characters face).

Media Institutions - the organisation/group responsible for making the media text (eg. BBC - film & TV and News International - newspapers).

Denote - things which are literally represent in a text (eg. someone wearing football boots is playing football).

Conote - things which are symbolically represented in a text (eg. a women wearing red is dangerous).

Cinematography - the shooting of a moving image (the way its shot).

Verisimilitude - the construction in a text of a plausible, believable world.

The Score - music specifically created to go on a programme/film.

The Soundtrack - music which already exists and is chose to be put in a programme/film.

Diegetic Sound - sound within the action (eg. a kettle boiling).

Non-diegetic Sound - sound edited in (eg. a voice over or a song).

Synchronous Sound - sound recorded in real time and there for matches the action exactly.

Incidental Sound - music which accompanies or is part of a scene, chosen to create atmosphere/emotion.

Mis en Scene - everything contained within the shot (eg. props, costume and setting).

Ideology - ideas behind a media text

Invisible/Continuity Editing - editing which is often used in TV dramas such as Eastender to convay realism.

Aberrant Decoding - a message the audience takes out of a text that goes against the producers intentions.

Cut - change from one shot to another

Camera:


Close ups - CU
Medium Shot - MS
Long Shot - LS
Extreme Long Shot - ELS
Extreme Close Up - ECU
Establishing Shot - ES
Point of View Shot - POV
Shot Reverse Shot - SRS
Two Shot/Three Shot/Crowd Shot
High Angle - HA
Low Angle - LA

My Magazine Mock-Ups

This is the mock up of my front cover of the school magazine and how I hope it will roughly look.

This is my mock up of my contents page this is how it will roughly look.

Photoshop Practice

I have been doing some photoshop practice for my front cover.
This is the image I started off with:

I opened up photoshop and then rubbed out the background so only Ben was in the picture, not any of the rocks. I used the 'Eraser Tool' of this. I did this so I could put him on a different background. Before I rubbed away the background I cropped the image, this made it easier because I had less of the background to rub away.

As Ben's leg is covered by the rock when I rubbed out the background part of his leg looked like it had been rubbed off, to solve this I used the 'Clone Stamp Tool' to duplicate parts of his leg which was already there to fill in the rest of his leg to make his leg look normal.

This is the image when I had cropped, clone stamped and erased the background.

I then went on and used the 'Blur Tool' I did this because Ben look very sharp around the edge and he didn't blend into the background, by doing this it made a drastic improvement to the realism of the picture.

Next I increased the contrast of the image, this made the image look better, I also increased the brightness. By increasing both the contrast and the brightness made the image look a lot more interesting and lively.

This is the image when I had cropped, clone stamped, erased the background, blurred & increase the brightness and contrast.

My Magazine Fonts

I like this font for my masthead but when I put it on my back ground it didn’t show up very well, and I wanted my title to be really bold and to stand out. I am also putting my masthead at the top of my magazine so when you look on a magazine rack it catches your eye straight away.

I have also used slang for my magazine because it is how my target audiences would typically speak and I would like my audience to be able to relate to my magazine. My target audience is secondary school students from about 13-17 from both genres, I wanted this target audience because my magazine is a school magazine and people not in school would probably not want to read it.

This is the font I ended up using, this font is sans-serif I choose to use this because it is a lot less formal and a lot more modern then sans font and I believe that my target audience would prefer this and choose this font them selves so it appeals to them more.

To begin with I tried using the font in black but it didn’t show up very well on my back ground so I choose a different colour so it stood out better.

Magazine Front Covers

Photography - There is a single cover image of Miley. She is looking straight at the audience which makes it direct address. Easy to do; have a friend dress up in a white top in front of a white screen (or photoshop her out and put her of the white back ground, and remove all blemishes)

What I Like About It - I like that the the picture on the magazine is fairly plain, that also makes the writing stand out and look interesting

Photography - It is a picture of a colourful bird. I would take a picture of a bird and then photoshop the bird out of the picture and cut it out and then put it on a green background.

What I like About It - I don’t really like this magazine because nothing really stands out all the font is really small so it does not stand out. I think it is borning.

Photography - There is a picture of a man looking angry which suggest his produces rock music. We could make this image by cutting a friend looking anrgy of an image and the putting them on the red background.

What I like about it - I like this because it has a bold statement with all the red of the back ground and the black making it stand out. I like the studio photography.

Photography - This is a controted picture it make all the cars look flawless this is done by lighting. You’d take a picture of the car and then put it on a different background.

What I Like - What I like about this picture is that it it has a very plain background which makes the car stand out more. In additition I like that the font is very bold and in stand out colours so you can notice straight way with out having to look to far

Photography - In this magazine there is not really a main image but lots little ones. Most of the images have been photoshop to up the contrast also the picture have been cropped and tilted.

What I Like About it - In this magazine there is not really a main image but lots little ones. Most of the images have been photoshop to up the contrast also the picture have been cropped and tilted.