School Magazine Evaluation

In my preparation lesson I analysed a style model from an existing school magazine, ‘Fusion’. Like Fusion, I used my title to reflect my schools ethos through both the font and the colours of the title; I used two different shades of blue with a white background, highlighting our schools colour scheme immediately through the title. I kept this colour scheme throughout my front page in order too again remind the readers of the school’s colours making our magazine stand out from the norm. I took direct inspiration from my style models contents page by changing the colours of the page numbers, having aesthetically pleasing colours reflecting our schools vibe of different individuals within the school. I was also inspired by the layout of Fusion magazine as I liked the way that the title was placed further down the page leaving space for images above and grasping the reader’s attention by subverting stereotypes of ordinary school magazines.

            I have widened my knowledge on technologies used in constructing magazines. I have learnt how to take a medium close-up of a student with a tripod in order to make the final image more professional. I also learnt how to use light to my advantage, for my front cover image I used artificial light from the flash of the camera and lighting in the room. I think that this helped me with my final image as I could control the light easier to my advantage where as if I’d used natural light it would have been more of a challenge. I manipulated my main image for my magazine with Photoshop, using the patch tool, to smoothen the skin, and the spot healing tool. I chose not to manipulate the image too much as it was a school magazine and you want to show your students how they are, not making them too false or un-natural.