This document is a report by Charlie Simpson about creating a school magazine and music magazine for an A-level media coursework project. Charlie discusses drafting a front cover and contents page for the school magazine to gain experience with software and magazine layout conventions. Feedback from potential readers helped determine content ideas. For the school magazine, Charlie edited photos in Photoshop and learned about layout and design. Audience research informed the target demographic of 15-19 year olds for the music magazine. Front and contents page research of other magazines provided ideas on design and formatting.

1. By Charlie Simpson A.S Coursework Production

2. SCHOOL MAGAZINE

3. School MagazineFor my A.S Media Coursework I am going to Create a front cover for my school magazine as well as a contents page. I am going to do this because before I go on to my music magazine I will be able to do a number of things which consist of, being a be to work around all of the different software that I might be using to edit any picture to go into my magazine, to be able, being able to learn and understand the conventions of the lay out of magazines. I believe by making this magazine this will help me in the long run to improve everything and make my music magazine that extra bit better than my school magazine.

4. I ask parents and other people who fit the audience that would read the school magazine and got some ideas what to put on the contents page and got some really good ideas. School magazineContents page Front CoverSport scores

5. Scholarships

6. Trips

7. Ideas for schools future

8. Head master interview

9. What old students are doing now they have left Shiplake

10. Quiz page

11. Sport fixtures

12. Pictures

13. Hits of what's in the next issue

14. Quotes

15. Upcoming events

16. Attracting text DraftingTo get a rough idea on what my front cover was going to look like and get a rough idea where everything was going to go, I stuck to my plan and everything turned out to look good. I chose to put a two mid shot pictures on the front cover in the places that I did because I thought it would give a better view of the main picture which is the background. I chose to put the text box at the bottom right hand side of the page as it will also expose the background that little bit more and will be easy to see and stand out a bit more. The title of the magazine along with the logo was put there as I thought it was the most professional to be put at the top of the page.

17. FROUNT COVER CONTENTS PAGE

18. EDITING THE FRONT COVER ManipulatedORIGANAL On this image I have taken the sky and made it bluer then the sky in the original. I did this because I thought it would make the picture look brighter and much more appealing to the readers. I also resized the picture to make it fit the page. I then sent the background picture to the back of the page and had all of the writing and the other smaller pictures on top of the background so everything could be seen. I did the editing in a program called Adobe Photoshop.

19. EDITING THE CONTENTS PAGEManipulatedOriginal photos In this picture I done many changes to make it look the way It does, I mainly did this picture to get use to some of the tools on the program adobe Photoshop As I thought it would give me a better understanding of the software when it comes to doing my music magazine in the next stage of the coursework. The way that I did this was I first cropped out the two figures out of their previews background, I then copied them into the new background of a place in Hawaii. I then resized the figure on the right to make it blend in to the picture a bit more. I then added some text into the picture.

20. WHAT HAVE I LEARNED? By doing this school magazine it has helped me learn a lot of things that will be very useful in the future when I do my music magazine and will hopefully be able to make it a lot better then it would have been without doing this magazine on the school. Some of the things that I have learnt are things like being able to know my way around the editing software to make the magazine a lot more appealing to the readers. I have also learned that I now understand about the lay out of the magazines and this will really help for the music magazine as I will know what will fit best and be seen best in different places around the page.

21. BY CHARLIE SIMPSON MUSIC MAGAZINE