Media Preliminary work

By Ben Beattie

No date on the

magazine

The subtitle is promoting the magazine by

saying it'd the best one of its

kind.

Title is a large bold with a back shadow. Makes me think it's

not aimed at business or

professional people, mainly aimed for

children. Has headings with brief

descriptions of the headline.

Background looks like the

British museum in London

which ties with the heading school trips

which is on the same area of the image.

Main image is a girl with a book looking into the

camera

Evaluation• Even better if the girls outline was a better

quality as it looks obvious and possibly move the heading about trips up so it's clearer to read.

• I think it looks quite mixed in its target audience as its quite confusing as the subheading are childish but the photos could be seen that it appeals to an older person. Personally when I first saw it without reading I thought it was about foreign students traveling.

The photos chosen and colours indicate there was a school

trip to China. This is a photo of the

group on Tiananmen Square

in front of the forbidden palace. When our school

went there we did a similar photo, I

think that's why I like it as it reminds me of our trip, the other three photos

are just of the younger children

playing.

The logo and pattern in the

top left are very high quality

which makes me think it could be a private school

and the magazine is for the parents, a type of classy

newsletter.

There's no date on the

publication. There is no titles or subtitles; only the school name

and its motto.

This is a more classy and grown up magazine due

to the theme, layout and the

colours

Evaluation• If better if maybe the smaller photos were all

even and the small size as it does look a little messy.

• The best bits are the photos as they as high quality and show what's in the magazine without even needing text. Which I think adds a lot of power to the magazine as it doesn't need the text. Also the target audience I think are the parents of the children who go to this private all girls school.

ConclusionThe example work above is very impressive, as the front cover contains very high quality components for example the title and the dings look as though they belong in an actual magazine. With the slating of the font in the title to the block fade in the sub-headings it's very professional looking cover contains very high quality actual The example work is very impressive, as the front belong in an very components for below the sub-headings look as though they its example the title and title to the block fade in the sub-headings magazine. with the slating of the font in the professional looking much better in my opinion, but in the contents it stills look The contents looks good but the front is quality as I have seen better quality. good considering it's a student but believe it could be better particular good also I To improve it I would change the picture fade out as it doesn't look this is the copy but would change the font of the text explaining what's at each point. Not sure if so I would adapt that there is a faint outline of press on the image and it doesn't look professional or perhaps change the image of all the children as I don't like that either. The image on the front cover and is strange but l like it. I guess it's an a level student or even the student who created it as there is a subject about a level results on the front so it could be linked to that.

Analysis of Previous work

What is successful? What has the student done well?

I personally think that this is a good piece of work as it contains all the components that a school magazine should. It has a title, main image and secondary stories. i think this looks very professional and of a high quality as it is presented to a high profile, an example would be the secondary stories have a fade out which looks strong and that of a real magazine.

What could be improved? If i was creating it I would change the contents

page a little, I like the layout of it I just don't like the press on the top photo as it looks cheap and ruins both the picture and the title. i would also make the fade out of the images at the bottom less powerful as i don't like it.

Have they fulfilled the brief?I believe they have fulfilled the brief as

they have created a front cover for a school magazine and a contents page so they have completed the brief.

Student ResearchWhat would you expect to see in the magazine?Editorial III 3

School events IIII 4

Articles about the school IIIII I 6

Reviews (films, music and television etc) IIIII IIII 9

How often should there be a new publication?

Yearly 0

School Termly IIIII IIII 9

Monthly IIIII II 7

Weekly IIIII 5

Daily IIII 4

Should the magazine be free?

Yes IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII 25

No 0

Draft (Drawn)

Draft (Publisher)

Draft (Publisher)

Process notesHere you can see how i've cropped the image to remove the background so it's just a plain white background so i can place it on top of other features without the original white square being in the way; I used the quick selection tool for this as it was quick and the background is very distinctive form the foreground making it easy for the program to select the area that I wanted.

Process notes

As you can see i've cropped the same background of my second image by using the quick selection tool; i highlighted the parts that i didn't want to be kept and deleted them.Then in the second image i positioned the first image to go in front of the two girls and moved that layer to the background to produce a merge of the two images. Later i added text and a box to house the text in so it's more interesting for the reader.

What have I learnt?During the project I have learnt a lot of new skills, i will use these to help develop and

produce my new music magazine, my first new skill that will consequently help with my music magazine are my photoshop skills, these have been vastly improved during the production of both the front cover and the contents pages for my school magazine. Photoshop isn't a program that I use much so it was a quintessential for me to learn and play with with this software before I produce any media products with it. This helped build and develop my skills that later coincided with the production of the school magazine. Things i've learnt from photoshop are how to crop an image, how to remove a background from an image and how to layer the different components etc. I've also improved on my internet research skills as i wanted a high quality end product so i looked at various different school magazines from around the world which i though proved to aid with my own media work. So all in all i've learnt a lot from my preliminary work and i will use this new knowledge to support my judgement in the production of my music magazine.