Lesson 5

Today I started to annotate and comment on music magazine covers. I started on one with Jake Bugg, making comments on the title, colours, photos and tag lines. I finished the first one but I still have 2 left to do. I will do one of Jessie J on a Top of the Pops and one of Cheryl Cole on Q. 

Lesson 4

This lesson I tidied up my blog. I had to upload a powerpoint of my photos that i didnt use and my preliminary task ideas and sketches. I then went on to evaluate my preliminary task, and uploaded it to my blog. This was set last week so i also finished it for homework.

Evaluation of preliminary task

Evaluation of my preliminary task.

Front page evaluation:

Firstly, my title is HAYDON WEEKLEY. I chose this as a name because it represents the school that the magazine is about and tells us how often the magazine would be coming out. I made the font dark blue with a yellow outline as the girl I have photographed on my cover had her Haydon tie on which is navy and yellow stripes. I put the school badge on the top right side of the page. I got this offline and to improve it I would need to get rid of the white box around the edge making it transparent. This would leave just the emblem not a box around the edge which doesn’t fit in with the magazine. This photo I have as my background is a mid-shot of a student from Haydon. I need to make the resolution clearer for it to look better. This will also make the magazine look more professional. I also need the photo more centred so the text around the edges doesn’t overlap more on one side.

I put the price of the magazine in bold text and made it yellow with as red outline. But to make this stand out further I should make the price bigger so people can see clearly how much it is. Some of the text I put on the front cover is also in yellow to make it tie in with the title and make it a collective theme. This also makes the magazine look more professional. However I should make some other titles stand out like the Haydon links because these won’t be inside the magazine.

Contents page evaluation:

I made the title contents page again navy with a yellow outline to go with the school theme. I also made the numbers for the pages navy as well so it matches. However I would like to make it stand out a bit more. I also would like to add a background next time because it looks too plain. I would also make the Haydon values a clearer picture to make the overall appearance better. And next time I would also make the text under each page title a bit bigger so its clearer to read, also making it just clear black text not a black out line so it looks more professional and less childish. The badge with the white outline looks alight on this page but only because I don’t have a background so next time if I do a background then I would need to get rid of the boarder and make it transparent so it doesn’t show.

Using the programme was quite simple. However I found moving and re sizing the images hard, I did get used to it in the end but I always ended up cropping the picture and not actually making it bigger or smaller.

Final preliminary Task

 These are my final designs of my preliminary task, I followed the sketches I made and edited them slightly on the way. This shows my front cover and contents page. I included a head shot of a student at Haydon and some little photos I also took around the school to show the environment. This magazine was a good practice of how to use the softwear as I havent used it before and I will need to for my real magazine.

Original ideas and unused photos

This powerpoint is showing the ideas I had for the name of my magazine, my sketches of my preliminary tasks and the photos that I didnt use in my actual magazine. By doing this I can see what style of photos were better and what ones were not good enough for my magazine. This helps me for the future as I will need to do this for my real magazine and chose which photos are good enough for a magazine.

Lesson 3

This lesson I finished editing my blog so I added in the labels down the side so it was simpler to move around the blog. I also did my evaluation of my preliminary task. This was of the front cover and contents page. I went through my stregnths weeknesses and how I found using the programme. I also made a screen video this lesson which was hard to start with but got better after I retook them again to make it less jumpy. I also added a photo of my sketches to my first blog 'Lesson1' because it adds variation to my blog. After all this I edited my evaluation of Chelsea's Blog to make it more detailed and interesting.

Evaluation Of Previous Students Blog

By looking at Chelsea's blog I can now see what a successful blog has and what I need to do to get a good grade. Also, I can now see what Sir and the examiner is looking for as I haven't done media before so havent had a blog to update. Furthermore I see how much work goes into a blog.

Lesson 2

In this lesson I went on to the computer and made the front cover and contents page that I sketched last lesson. I started by making the title and then added in the mid close up photo of the student I took last lesson. I zoomed it in a bit too so it was all more together. I also added a photo of the school canteen food under the subtitle "Lunch Menu Deals". After adding all the text I moved on to the contents page. This didn't have any background but I did add some photos again to add detail and then got a photo off the Haydon website of the values at the bottom so it wasn't just blank. After I finished I went back and edited some ofthe text to a different font and made some bigger and bold so it stood out like the price. I also changed it so there was some coloured text. 

Lesson 1

This lesson we started our draft of the magazine we will be making. It is a school paper and we had to include a mid head shot and a contents page after that. So I drew out on paper my idea of what I want mine to look like followed by the contents page. It has lots of room to improve and gives me an idea of what my final magazine will look like. After I went out and took photos for my magazine/paper around the school and of some students for my front cover. I need to get a copy of the Hayden standards that are placed all over the school and I need the logo to put on my cover.