Deconstruction of exsisting Magazine Contents Pages

Deconstruction of an exsisting Magzine cover

Deconstruction of an exsisting Magzine cover

Deconstruction of an exsisting Magazine cover

Risk Assesment

What I Have Learnt

I have learnt that the cover of a magazine does not necessarily have to have the subject looking at the audience, it could be a good picture of something awe-inspiring or it could be a picture of a band playing. This means that I can focus more on getting the picture i want rather than the picture i need. i also learnt that a cover must have a specific set of colours, otherwise it might look to crowded.

My preliminary task

This was my first task, to create a cover for a school magazine. First i took a picture of someone playing the guitar against a tree, the model for my cover, and put into photoshop. Then i cut him out of the picture and put him in to an A4 sized page in another photoshop document. Once i had made some adjustments to the Photo, I selected a limited pallet of blue, white and black and made a masthead footer and a title. I then touched it all up and it was finished.

My Prilim Development

The Breif:

Preliminary Exercise;
Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/collage magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.     

Main Task;
The front page, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine.