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| Front Cover Sketch |
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After I drew my sketches and scanned them in, I then had a photo shoot for my magazine and chose the best and most professional photos to use in my magazine. Here are the photos that I used.
After I had my photos I then started to make my front cover on
Adobe Photoshop. For the masthead of my magazine I used the text tool and placed it at the top of my cover, I used the 'Impact' font for my masthead and this font is much like the typical text used for magazines. I chose the name as Haydon Today as it is a news magazine for the school. I chose the colour scheme of blue and yellow as they are apparent in the school buildings and stag. I used the rectangle tool to create a blue rectangle below the masthead of the magazine, I then input the text 'Haydon Student Wins Spelling Bee', since this is the feature article of the magazine I made it more bold and eye catching than the other sell lines. Below the feature sell line on the left and right, I input two more sell lines using the text tool. I then put my front cover image onto photoshop by opening the photo and dragging it onto my front cover in photoshop. I then resized the image to fit around my masthead and sell lines. I duplicated the blue rectangle at the top of my page and place the duplicate at the bottom on the cover. I used the text tool to input text informing the reader of the competition and exam tips inside.
For my contents page I initially planned to stay with my colour scheme of blue and yellow, however because I had no background image, the yellow text I used didn't show up of the page very clearly so I had to change the colour yellow to black in order to make it visible. I used the text tool to create the word 'contents' at the top of my page. I kept that part of the contents page blue so it still fit with my original colour scheme. I created sub headings for the articles in my magazine, I split up the pages into; 'feature', 'news' and 'extra'. With the text tool I also created all the page listings. To make them visible, I changed them all to black. I input some images on my contents page by opening them and dragging them onto to the page. I resized them accordingly and placed appropriate page numbers on the two images. Using the shape tool I created a white rectangle and placed it behind one of my photos, I then put some drop shadow on the shape. This makes the picture pop a bit more and makes it a little less boring. By putting the drop shadow on the image, it created the look of the picture being on a Polaroid.
This is a video of all the layers of my Preliminary task magazine being put on, this is to illustrate how I made the magazine and how it came together
