1. Brief Information
With this preliminary task, I was ask to produce a front page and content for a school magazines
with the use of Photoshop and how to manipulate images and enhance specific aspects/details within
that school magazine:
1. Firstly, I had to research and analyse a school magazine; to know what is required for my school
magazine.
2. Second objective was to produce a plan for my own school magazine; including layout (sketches)
and notes (about the type audience, etc.).
3. Once I’ve finished 1st and 2nd stage; you’ll have to produce a school magazine (front and content
page)
4. Finally, you analyse and feedback on what you have done in your school magazine.
Overall, this preliminary task will benefit me as it will help me towards my music magazine. As it
helped me gain more knowledge about Photoshop and idea’s of what I could do.
2. Name of school
– also showing that
there is more than
one school.
School
Issue date
logo - Month of
release.
Colourful
Dates of events - but sticks
– notifying you of within the blue
up coming range mostly.
events.
Links with
the Olympic
– athletics.
It grounds the Olympic logo
background – – celebrating the
telling you where Olympics. The values of
it is set. Olympics link to the
school.
3. Issue date
School
Masthead
- Clear headings
name/logo
that separated.
Main image
- Larger than the
Secondary rest
images - Maybe the
main story
Page number
- Multi coloured
- Stand out more
4. Target audience: • My target audience is GCSE students , as we talk about GCSE results and
(age range, interests) prom, etc.
Although it is a school newsletter you still
have to think about your audience and how
to appeal to them.
Possible title ideas: • Impreston Manor - with a play on the schools name.
(masthead / title block)
What is your magazine going to be called?
Main image: • There is MCU (medium close up shot) of a student emphasising that it is
What will be the focal point of your front student magazine.
page, remember, your work “must include a
photograph of a student in a medium close-
up”
Main cover line: • GSCE results – how well the school did.
What will be the main story?
Additional key images: • Image of the student cooking healthy food for meat free Mondays.
What other images will be on your front • Picture of inside the prom- giving the audience a tester of what type of
cover? pictures they are.
Remember, it is a school magazine.
Additional cover lines: • Meat free Mondays?
Other features, stories or selling points • Non-uniform Vs. Uniform
which will be inside the magazine, these • Interview with the head teacher
need to be audience appropriate. • Review about the G&T (gifted and talented) people
Typography: • White to keep it neutral
(style, size, colour of copy) • Keep it modernised - text front but simple.
Think about the writing and the style of the
writing on your front page.
Background colour/image: • Green background with aspects of black around the edges.
What will be in the background, remember • Softened around the image so it can stand out more.
you don’t want to take the focus away from
the main image.
Technical considerations: • The image will have good lighting and focuses on the student face with a
(equipment, setting, props, costume, medium shot.
lighting)
Be realistic and creative, think about what
you have access to and how you could use
it.
7. Original image Manipulated image
I decided to use this image as it went with one of my secondary stories in my front cover
which was about the non-uniform vs. uniform. The changes I made from the original to
adjusted image; was I cropped out the green background with the quick selection tool,
magnetic lasso tool and the rubber (which I put on a blur affect) to make a blurred affect
around the outline, to make the edges look softer. Also, before this process I used the
rubber to remove some of her hair to make it look neater. Overall, I different have any
problems with the image.
8. What have I learned?
From this preliminary task it helped me produced a prototype magazine – font
cover and content page. With the use of Photoshop I was able to understand the
software, such as tools, manipulating images and so on. Therefore, I have a much
better understand of the software and the stages of making a school magazine.
Once I start music magazine, using this software will be easier as I have a much
better understanding of how and what tools to use. Overall, I’m more confident
after doing this preliminary task; however, my work will be more improved
intensely.
