When I reviewed an existing school magazine, the main codes and conventions were the; Main image, Inset Pictures, Colour Scheme, Layout, Text and Language.
This magazine did not follow all these codes and conventions, as it didn’t have a main image, but for my school magazine, I had a main image which took up most of the page. For the George Stephenson school magazine it had a gradient background. The main image was a series of other images and photographs put together as one in the middle, I don’t think this looks very good or professional so I did not take this on into my school magazine.
The main title was big and bold in black, which I think was effective as it stood out. But I don’t like the font of the text, as it didn’t relate to the rest of the front cover and was hard to read. In my school magazine, I didn’t take the font of the title but I did apply the size and boldness.
When taking my photographs I had to put some things under consideration such as: the lighting, wherether I could use natural light or needed to turn the light on, or use another lamp. Also I had to make sure that my photographs were not blurry, and to do this I had to get the right setting on the camera. For my magazine, I needed a medium close up image, so I had to take this into consideration when talking my photographs.
When I picked my photograph I needed to Photoshop it, to suit my magazine. To do this I needed to use the magnetic lasso tool, to cut out Sarah and part of the foreground and the cooking bowl on the contents page, which was appropriate to theme of my magazine, which was based on a cooking competition within the school. I then copied the layer and moved it onto a new layer which I turned all blue using the paint bucket tool. I then used the text tool to make a title and the text on both the front cover and contents page and then messed around with the size, font and colour until I was happy with it.
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