College Magazine - Front Page Analysis

As part of one of my blog post I was told that I must create a front cover mock up of a college magazine. For this task I choose to base my front cover on my sixth form college, helping to promote my college for students who are willing to apply in the future. Beneath I have created a prezi showing my final front cover college magazine after using the element of Photoshop to help me create this. I have explained why and how I have used certain features that help to promote my front cover college magazine to the reader. Take a few minutes to watch my presentation.

College Magazine - Images/Camera Angles

In my media lesson I was told that I must create a front cover college magazine and an additional contents page using the element of Photoshop to help me in my construction. Today I decided to take a few images of my sixth form college and some of the students that I may use on my college magazine front cover and contents page. Below I have included a few images and I have also used certain camera angles as well in my images.

 

I am planning to use this image for my front cover page. This is a medium shot which shows students working in my sixth form college. This will also be my main image on my front page.

Here is another image that shows a student working at a computer desk. This image is also another medium shot.

This image that I had taken shows a view of what facilities the college has to offer to students in the study area. It shows a specific area and therefore this is an establishing shot.

UKs Top 20 Best Selling Singles of 2013 (15 - 11)

Here is this weeks top 20 countdown of the best selling singles in the UK. Please enjoy watching :D

UKs Top 20 Best Selling Singles of 2013 (20 - 16)

As an independent blog post, each week I have decided that I am going to show the UKs top 20 and most favourite singles of 2013. I am going to create a Prezi every week showing a countdown of this years most top selling singles throughout the UK. I have decided to do this because I believe that looking at most popular singles in the charts will help me to include particular and most popular artists(if necessary)within my music magazine. If they are well known then it is likely that I will attract a wider audience to my music magazine. This will therefore help me towards my journey into creating a  successful music magazine.  I may also include blog posts similar to this in the future in order to keep me updated with the latest/new/upcoming singles. Enjoy this weeks top selling singles :D ....

Photoshopping

Within one of my media lesson this week, we were given a task to Photoshop a picture of Susan Boyle and 50 Cent  and merge the 2 famous artist into 1. I have used Photoshop before in the past and I found constructing this task quite difficult however I managed to produce my own creation of an album cover. Here is what my final constructed piece approved off.

Referring back to my previous blog, the use of Photoshop can have positive and negative aspects on the people in the image and the viewers. In this case we can see that there are 2 completely different artist that associate themselves within different genres within the music industry. If this image was used on a front cover of a music magazine, it will connote positive as well as negative influences on the artists.

The positive outcomes in this case being that the image....

- Helps to promote the artist of 50 cent and Susan Boyle to the reader
- Makes the main image and the cover of the magazine stand out and more attractive for the reader to look at
- Helps to entice the reader to buy the magazine in order to improve circulation figures

However the negative outcomes in this case is that the image....

- Could portray a negative influence on both artists from the readers perspective because they are associating themselves within a mixture of music genres rather than their chosen music genre
- May result in a loss of fans and admirers to the artist because they are striving themselves away from their specific music genre

Photoshop - Positive and Negative Aspects

I have decided to create a short presentation using prezi based on Photoshop. In my presentation I have discussed how Photoshop can have both positive and negative impacts on the people presented on the front cover of a magazine and how it can also positively and negatively impact the reader. Again, please take a few moments to go through my presentation, to show how I have come to terms with these aspects.

Photoshop Practice

In todays media lesson, I decided to use photoshop an image of one of my Favourite bands 'Mumford and Sons'. This is to show the simple and basic outline on how photoshop is used on images. I have used simple and basic tools to show how I have done this. Below I have shown the before and after image of my editing using my photoshop skills. 

Before:

After:

I have also included a video to show and outline how basic tools are used in photoshop to edit certain images, just like what I have done. 

Photoshop Element

The Photoshop element is the leading digital image editing application for internet, print and other new media disciplines. It is very likely that most images seen on posters, book covers, magazine pictures and brochures has either been created or edited by Photoshop. To do this Photoshop has certain features and tools to help modify, move, duplicate, resize and perform adjustments to photographs in order to enhance and edit the quality of the image.

In order for me to create my music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread, I need to be aware of  this computer program as it will help me do this. In addition to this, I will need to further my development skills with using Photoshop by knowing how to use basic features. For example I will needs to know how to edit images by taking out the background when I just want the image of a persons body.

Below I have included a short video on what Photoshop is all about and how it is used today. By watching this video we can get a better understanding how and why Photoshop is used.

Annotating Different Music Magazine Genres

Compared to my previous blog post, I have designed a short presentation on annotating another selection of two different magazine genres from viewing the front covers. When it comes to annotating different magazine front pages, we as an audience will have different impressions and opinions on the people presented to the readers.

Please take a moment to watch my short presentation below to show how I have come to these terms.