Front Cover

Contents Page

Creating/Designing Products

Basics of Photoshop

This is my front cover before I added a main image. When I added the main image to my front cover then I had to change the colour of the cell lines because the purple and this colour of blue was slightly difficult to see with the background image. I changed the blue to a lighter colour and I changed the purple to a bright yellow so it stands out against the background.

Photographs for Front Cover

These are the photographs I am considering using for my main image. The photographs are of a student pulling books out of the shelf in a library. The library relates to the college magazine because it is showing books that would be used by college students to use in their learning.

Mise-en-scene and Location Ideas

For the main image on my magazine I will be setting it in the college library because that relates to college and will have a student grabbing a book from one of the shelves. The walls in the background of the library and the shelves in the library are a pale colour so that text was easier to put onto it. The student in the photograph is wearing a grey jumper because a lot of college students tend to wear grey jumpers because it is a generic and easy colour.

Camera Framing

Extreme close up

Close up

Medium Close up

Long shot

High angle

Low angle

Image framed from the right

Image framed from the right

Two shot

Central image

Digital Draft

This is my practice to see how I would lay out the masthead and main image on the front cover of a magazine.

Feature Ideas

1. Wyke elections 2015
2. students celebrate biology success
3. rag week
4. Berlin trip
5. chemistry competition success
6. french exchange
7. student wins anti bullying award
8. camp america
9. economic students target competition
10. previous student cast in HBO drama 

These are going to be the feature ideas for my college magazine.

Colour Palette

For the masthead I would use the bright blue from the picture in the top left picture. For the cell lines I would use the red from the top right picture and the yellow from the top right picture also.
All of these colours are bright colours that work well together and would work well for the front cover for a magazine.

Magazine Names

The type of college magazine is going to be generalised college.

Ideas for magazine names:

• Academic
• Subject
• Course
• College
• Campus
• Student

All of these names would work well for a general college magazine.

Mood Board

I have chosen these photographs for my inspiration because my college magazine is going to be a generalised magazine for college students, and not for specific subjects. These photos are of people in a library, either with a book, writing, or at a computer, which doesn't specify any subject.

Conventions of a College Magazine

LIIAR Analysis

Position Signs: the camera and the viewer

• The focal point of the camera is the unicorn's muzzle, which in turn draws attention to the mint.
• The point of view positions the viewer being not quite level with the unicorn's gaze - which would be the case were the viewer stood to the side of a rather large horse. This has the effect of making the unicorn superior in size, which relates to the word 'discerning' from the slogan, and the fact that (despite the fact that they're not real) unicorns are fabled to be extremely rare and this considered to be the 'elite' of horses.

Treatment Signs: devices of filming and of processing

• The white background might not seem to be an obvious choice against which to depict a white unicorn and a mint. However, the white emphasises the theme of purity, and adds an element of fantasy to the image. Furthermore, white is often associated with luxury items, thus the white background provides a luxury background against which the black evening glove stands out in high contrast in terms of colour - though the bejewelled, gloved hand and the words 'discerning' are both signifiers of wealth and class.
• The framing of the scene means that the viewer can not see whom the arm belongs, but this means that the attention is not diverted from the product or the message that Trebor wish to convey. The message conveyed by the advert may be interpreted as being that Extra Strong Mints are mints of distinction - a cut above the rest.

Content Signs: Objects in the picture and their placing

•  Black evening gloves and diamond jewellery are featured to emphasise the quality of the mint. The image provides a strong contrast with the scene you might expect if you imagined a stable girl feeding a pony a mint - surrounded by hay and horse manure, whilst wearing practical clothes (which stereotypically might involve various shades of khaki green and an assortment of tweeds with wellington boots). Trebor are keen for the viewer to understand that Extra Strong mints are such a high quality, that they are certainly not a mint that would feed to a mere pony in a stable with your bare hands.
• The diamond jewellery could be considered to signify wealth and success, which relates to the slogan 'sweet success' - the mint is of such quality that it in itself is a sign of success (though in reality they retail the packet for about 50p a packet).
• The pack shot of the packet of Extra Strong mints is centred at the bottom of the advert, and draws the eye in as it is the only part of the advert that makes use of strong colours.

Brief

To design a college magazine front cover and mock up contents page. Images used on the front cover must be original (taken by you).