Thursday, March 4, 2010

Scan of Magazine Front Cover


Today I looked at other music magazine front covers.
I chose to look at this one as the 'Muse' are quite similar to my band that I am going to use - 'The Olivers'.
By looking at this magazine front cover I can see that most music magazine front are jam packed with writing. I like the look of it as it is busy and draw the viewers eyes to it.
I like the titles as they are bold and bright coloured. This has given me ideas for my magazine front cover.

Approaches to Minor Task

I think my minor task was successful as it included everything that it needed to have.
I took a picture of my friend Charlotte i decided to have her picture as the background of my magazine cover. The picture was taken in a library, which I thought linked in well with the theme of a school magazine.
The title 'St.Bedes School' was successful as I placed it in the left hand corner of the page, this looked good as it match the colour scheme of the school which was blue and also it was not too big that it drew the viewers eye away from the picture but big enough to inform them what school magazine it was.
The sub headings worked well and I liked where I placed them as they were at the sides of the magazine, i did this so they did not cover the picture too much.
I then took a picture of both my media studies teachers and uploaded it under the title of the article about them. I thought this was very successful as it makes the viewer want to read the article even more. I also edited this picture by fading it a little bit so it blended into the magazine more.
I added the school logo in the top right hand corner which I thought was good. I also added in the date of the release of the magazine and how much the magazine is to buy. I thought this was successful as all magazines have the release date on them and how much it costs.
In the bottom right hand corner i inserted a bar code. I personalised this my changing the code to one related to St. Bedes.
Overall I thought my magazine covered everything it needed to and therefore was very successful.