The document provides details of a student's preliminary work for a school magazine project. It includes draft front covers and contents pages created in Photoshop, as well as analysis of the work and notes on the process. The student learned important Photoshop and research skills from the project that will help with creating a music magazine. Key skills learned include cropping images, removing backgrounds, layering elements, and researching examples of existing magazines. The preliminary work fulfilled the given brief of creating front cover and contents pages for a school magazine.

1. Media Preliminary
work
By Ben Beattie

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Conclusion
The 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.

7. 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.

8. Student Research
What 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

9. Draft (Drawn)

10. Draft (Publisher)

11. Draft (Publisher)

12. Process notes
Here 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.