Since creating my college magazine, my knowledge of the media industry has increased. For example, I now know what sort of magazines certain groups of people would buy. I know what sort of images sell well and what people want to read about in magazines, for example, gossip is typically one of the mist popular things that my target audience would want to read about in a music magazine because they idolise famous artists, they want to know what they are doing and what sort of people they are so that they can try to be like them. I also know how to relate to my audience much better than I did when I was doing my preliminary task because I looked into what they found interesting. I did this by asking a typical 17 year old female what sort of things she would expect to find in a magazine.
I feel as if I have also learnt a lot more about the layout of my magazine. In my preliminary task, I had writing either side of the picture whereas on my music magazine cover, I chose to have the writing to the left hand side of the image because I think this looks more like a real magazine. I also asked my typical audience what they thought of the positioning of the writing compared to my college magazine and the responses were good, so I left the writing where it was. I think it makes the magazine look more mature and professional.
Since my preliminary task, I have also learnt that black is a good background colour to have, when creating my college magazine, I thought that if I used a black background, then my magazine would automatically be aimed at a certain group of people known as the 'emo' type but after looking through the pictures that I took for my cover and trying a few images with dark backgrounds, I realised that when mixed with the right colours, black doesn't look 'emo'. I think that it goes well when its behind my chosen colours, pink and white.
I have also learnt a lot in terms of manipulating images. I didn't use photoshop to edit any of my images but I have had to re-size them in order for them to fit on to my front cover properly. I learnt that some of the images wouldn't fit onto my front cover because when I tried to re-size them, they made my models face look either really long and strectched or fat. Because my front cover image takes up the whole page, I have manipulated it by putting writing across the top (title) and writing down the side and a bar code at the bottom. This is classed as manipulating because the image is no longer just of a person, its not an image of a magazine cover.
I feel as if I have also learnt a lot more about the layout of my magazine. In my preliminary task, I had writing either side of the picture whereas on my music magazine cover, I chose to have the writing to the left hand side of the image because I think this looks more like a real magazine. I also asked my typical audience what they thought of the positioning of the writing compared to my college magazine and the responses were good, so I left the writing where it was. I think it makes the magazine look more mature and professional.
Since my preliminary task, I have also learnt that black is a good background colour to have, when creating my college magazine, I thought that if I used a black background, then my magazine would automatically be aimed at a certain group of people known as the 'emo' type but after looking through the pictures that I took for my cover and trying a few images with dark backgrounds, I realised that when mixed with the right colours, black doesn't look 'emo'. I think that it goes well when its behind my chosen colours, pink and white.
I have also learnt a lot in terms of manipulating images. I didn't use photoshop to edit any of my images but I have had to re-size them in order for them to fit on to my front cover properly. I learnt that some of the images wouldn't fit onto my front cover because when I tried to re-size them, they made my models face look either really long and strectched or fat. Because my front cover image takes up the whole page, I have manipulated it by putting writing across the top (title) and writing down the side and a bar code at the bottom. This is classed as manipulating because the image is no longer just of a person, its not an image of a magazine cover.
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