We finally got on to making and desinging out front covers for our college magazine. From the photos we took a few lessons back we used them for either our front cover or contents page. I designed mine around colours and light and dark.

I used photoshop to help me create the front cover contents page.

This was my front cover, picture taken outside the priory.

After making our front cover we then went on to make a content page for the college magazine, it had to include pictures of the college and thing that would make it sell like good articles that people would find interseting.
This was my content page;

Constructing my magazine

After looking on tips and ideas on how to construct a magazine we started using cameras and taking photos for our front covers for our college magazine. We were only to use our own material and not to use any pictures from the internet or that other people had taken. We learnt about the: frames, shutter speed, balance and juxtapostion, rules of thirdsand angles.

We learnt about different photographers such as Helmut newton and David Bailey as this showed us how they postioned their models and how this helped to distinguis there shots. It showed us how it influences compemenpary fashion. It also helped us to decide what front cover we could do and gave us some inspiration.

We then did a magazine analysis of the prompts: technical, how it is presented on the page, Symbolic, do the colours represent anything and do the signify anything ? Written, does the writing have an ambigious meaning or does the master head signify anything? And does the overall layout and stlye aim to attrackt he reader.

Ideology and house styles

After looking at ideology we then looked at house styles we had to develop ideas on creating house style and possible 'angle' using differnt audeinces and features. We then had to define and analyse conventional features of a music front cover. We also had to design and pratice our own house style. When doing this we had to look at the different audiences that we would aim our magazines at when we were desiging them.

To help us design our front covers we looked at what all magazine have in common such as the banner, masthead, cover line and menu strip. We also learnt that most magazines still to a simple 3 colour scheme whislt adding virbrant patterns and designs to catch the readers eye. Also we looked at the picture on the front cover suggesting to the audience the mood and type of magazine, there can be super smiley, chocolate box, romantic or sexual and invitational.

We looked at what the avreage age we would aim our magazine at and how the front cover reflect the target audience.

After we had looked at house style we moved back on to our questionnaires, we looked through them and created an analysis showing a consclusion of our results. Using our results we put together a series of ways in that we could use them for our college and music magazine.
When then identifed the main selling points of our magazines, we explored ways to read and contruct different types of text.

Key concepts

We than carried on with our work in Key Concepts. We looked at ideology and identity, we explored the meaning of ideology and how it is used within everyday. We looked at the political meaning of ideology and how to apply this to media. We experimented with ideas on forming idenity and we looked at how ideology forms a vital part in our daily lives.