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Media Presentation The Evaluation: by Katie Dent

The document outlines a student's process for creating the front cover and contents page for their student magazine portfolio project. It describes preliminary sketches, selecting a photo to feature, editing the photo in Photoshop, designing the layout with colorful text and additional images, and researching professional magazine examples for inspiration. The student explains design choices and how conventions were considered to effectively target their intended teenage audience.

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Media Presentation The Evaluation: by Katie Dent

The document outlines a student's process for creating the front cover and contents page for their student magazine portfolio project. It describes preliminary sketches, selecting a photo to feature, editing the photo in Photoshop, designing the layout with colorful text and additional images, and researching professional magazine examples for inspiration. The student explains design choices and how conventions were considered to effectively target their intended teenage audience.

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MEDIA PRESENTATION

The Evaluation

By Katie Dent
Foundation Portfolio Evaluation
• Forms and conventions

• Institutions and potential distribution

• Audience

• Technologies

• Progression
Preliminary Production –
Student Magazine Front Cover

• Using DTP – create a front cover for a Student Magazine

• Featuring a photo of a student in medium close up

• Appropriately laid-out text & masthead


Rough sketches of Student Magazine Front
Cover

Chosen
design idea

• Student – facing away from


• Student – facing forward the camera, to the side
• Title – each letter in different font
•Title – in clear block capitals
• Sell-lines – positioned at different
angles •Sell lines – positioned
horizontally
Student Magazine Front Cover -
Development

• Main image of student • Adding text/sell-lines/title around


• Editing the photo on Photoshop – the image of the student
Adjusting the size to A4 (21 by
29.7cm) •Adjusting the angles of the text
• Adjusting the contrast and lighting of •Adding a barcode & smaller images
the photo
Student Magazine Front Cover
Reseach…
•Researched other existing
magazine front covers in order to
get some ideas/inspiration to use
for my own magazine front cover.
Magazine photo shoot…
Chosen photo for Music Magazine
front cover…
Good use of I like the pose &
lighting – Photo position the
isn’t too dark model is in – Her
and is in focus. body is facing
away from the
camera but her
gaze towards the
front.

There is enough
space for the sell- Holding a guitar –
lines, title and Helps to represent
other text to go the genre of the
without magazine which is
overlapping to music.
much of the main
image.
Front Cover process…
•Photoshopping my chosen front cover photo.
•Using the lasso tool in Photoshop to select the background & the image of the
model separately.
•I desaturated the image of the model and used the ‘curves’ tool on Photoshop to
make the background colourful.
Front Cover process..
•After photoshopping front cover photo… I then downloaded a font for the
title of my magazine from the ‘dafont’ website.
•Changing the colour of the text/sell lines/title to compliment the colours in
the background
•Adding smaller images and a barcode onto the page.
Forms and Conventions
• This image is the front cover of my
music magazine.

• My photo of ‘Emily Mcilwain’ is


situated to the right hand side and
bleeds to the edges of the page.
• I photoshopped the image by using
the ‘lasso tool’ on Photoshop around
the figure of Emily. I then changed
the background by using the ‘curves
feature’ which adjusts the RGB (the
colour).
• I also desaturated the image of Emily
(black & white), which makes her
stand out from the rest of the bright
vibrant colours on the page connoting
her importance.
Forms and Conventions
• I have used bright •The text on the
vibrant colours page is also
which reflect my brightly coloured
target audience to match the
(teenage girls) and colour scheme on
will help to attract the rest of the
their gaze. page.
• I have positioned •
the smaller images
on the page at
different angles to
try and avoid the
‘vertical/horizontal’
lines on the page.
Forms and Conventions
• My magazine is
called ‘Volume’. I
felt this linked well
with the genre of
my magazine.
Research –
Professional Contents Pages

• I used both these contents pages as a guide for my own contents page
• They are both directed to a similar target audience (teenage girls)
• Neat/organised layout of page
My contents page… Large main
image – main
Title & editors
focus on
comment situated in
contents page.
the left hand
column.
Page is split up
into 3 sections –
Bright, bold colours
makes it easier to
used for the
read/follow.
background – makes
the page stand out. Bottom sections of
Connates a happy page contains
representation of the information about the
magazine. features inside the
magazine.

Smaller images – Some of the smaller


tilted at different images have the
angles – overlapping page number
the different sections relavent to it by the
side.
Forms and Conventions
Institutions

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