Matthew Burniston outlines his initial plans and reactions for creating a magazine cover and spread using Photoshop. He is positive about using his strengths in media to produce artwork that can be transformed into a cover or double page spread. However, he is not looking forward to writing the accompanying article as that is a potential weakness. He plans to create a mind map and mood board to influence his final product, which may feature artwork at the center with alternating foreground and background text styled using influences from the mood board like bright colors and subtle details. He provides an initial schedule with tasks for research, production experiments, and evaluation over 5 weeks.

1. Initial Plans
Matthew Burniston

2. Initial Reaction
• My first thoughts on coming into this project are quite
positive, given the set brief to create a magazine cover
and page spread using within photoshop – which can
ultimately play to some of my strengths in media...
• In this, I'm hoping that it could be possible to produce
some artwork in this – to later transform into a front
cover or include a creatively designed page spread.
• However, coming to the double page spread, I'm not
looking forward to writing/creating an article for this
project – as is a potential weakness.

3. Mind Map

4. Mind Map

5. Mood BoardRyan Aplin:
Lee Binding:

6. Mood Board

7. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated
colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• Colours: A lot of the artwork uses bright colours over the cut composited
images original colours.
• Style: In the centre of the artwork pieces the tend you use a selection of either
main characters – occasionally with a villain/monster... With a lot of the
magazine covers I'd liked, they used artwork as the base – with typography.
• Tones: Towards a lot of the edges and/or boarders of the pieces, they tend to
slowly fade to black or darker tone.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• In doing my mood board, I very much liked the concept of using a bit of
artwork as the centre piece of both my front cover and my double page
spread.
• On top of this, I also like the text alternating both in the foreground and
background of the piece.
• From a lot of the artwork I looked at I was drawn into the bright colours and
the subtle details (such as the addition of space faded into the piece.)

8. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Research, Initial Response,
Audience Research
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2 Production Experiments,
Proposal, Planning
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3 Production 
4 Production 
5 Evaluation 

9. Bibliography
• Name at least 7 sources that you plan to use in this project. These should include audience
research, books, videos/films/video games, magazines and newspaper articles etc.
1. Big Finish Production (2018) Vortex
2. (2018) Screen Africa
3. (2013) Indie Rock
4. Google Images
5. Dafont
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