Monday 13 October 2014
Production blog four
In todays lesson I finished up my magazine front cover and contents page. I did not make many changes as I was already happy with the result but just moved things about. After this I started doing my preliminary task evaluation. This is where I spoke about my magazine, how I made it and why I made it like that. I also spoke about differences in the design sketches and the final result, although there weren't many. Next lesson I will be starting to analyse three music magazine front covers.
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Preliminary task evaluation
For this preliminary
task I had to design and create a school magazine. After thinking of a number
of names, which you can see in another blog post, I can up with the name ‘The
Haydon Mail’ which I got from the real life newspaper ‘The daily mail’. To create
the magazine I used Adobe InDesign, which I was already confident in using, as
it is the programme I used to create my film magazine in for GCSE.
For my front cover I
chose to get a mid-close up of a Haydon sixth form student with the Haydon Stag
behind her (on the door). The reason I chose a sixth form student is because it
has a much more mature and sophisticated look than maybe a year 7. Also I spoke
about sixth form within the contents page and on the front cover so it relates
to the main image. I did not want to completely fill the page with sellines,
which is why I have kept it fairly simple to keep up with the theme of
sophistication, and not make it look too tacky. In addition to this the title
‘The Haydon Mail’ also relates to this because it is a variation of the formal
newspapers’ name ‘the daily mail’.
The font used for this was Bookman old style; I went through many till deciding
to choose this as my final one as I just prefer it and think it makes it look
good. The main font colour is black but the T in the, the D in Haydon and also
the M in mail are changed to the colours purple, yellow, and purple. This is
because it then follows a colour scheme and links to the Haydon stag, which is
placed to the right of the masthead, which is also purple and yellow. This
colour scheme is used throughout. It is the colour of the circle, which the
selline is in at the bottom right and purple, and yellow are also the border
colours on the images in my contents page. I have also added the Haydon values
puzzle onto my front cover as I believe this enhances the high quality and
sophisticated look of the school which is being portrayed through the magazine
and shows the expectations set from the school.
Furthermore my
contents page, this follows the same colour scheme as the front cover with the
purple, yellow and black. It is crucial that the same colour scheme is followed
throughout so that it looks good and doesn’t look like it should be two
different magazines. The title ‘Contents’ also uses the Bookmans old style font
to keep it similar to the front cover. The title is important as it lets the
reader know what page they’re on and if they see that it’s the contents page
then they will know that they can then find out more about the magazine and
where abouts certain pages and articles are which makes it very convenient for
the reader as they can find what they want straight away rather than having to
flick through all the pages to find it. Each page number is fairly big which
makes it stand out and becomes obvious to the reader what is on the page, which
is helped by the brief summary placed below each page number. This gives the
reader a brief idea of what is on that page or pages but does not give away too
much, using exciting things in these summaries makes the reader more likely to
want to read the full article. Also I have added two images into my contents
page, firstly one of the main school building St. Nicks and one of the
construction area where they are building a new sports hall. By using images it
makes the contents page look a lot less boring rather than just having loads of
writing so it mixes it up and becomes a bit more eye catching and appealing for
the reader. Finally I have added the Haydon stag as the background but faded it
out. This further enhanced the on going colour scheme and also makes it clear
that it is a Haydon magazine and gives it that stamp and even though you can’t
see the whole thing Haydon pupils will know what is it straight away.
My design sketches are
near enough the exact same as my finished magazine with the only difference
being that I got rid of two sellines from the sketched and didn’t include them
on the actual front cover. Other than that everything is how I originally
wanted it to be.
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