Print Prelim Front Cover and Contents

Print Prelim Evaluation

For my print prelim i worked with Katie, we both thought up our models and both decided on our chosen colour palette. We used inspiration from magazines like Heat and Glamour to get ideas for our magazine as they would appeal to the same audience as what we wanted - teenage girls. To actually produce our prelim we used the digital cameras to take a variety of pictures of our models, and then uploaded them onto the pcs to then use Photoshop to edit and organize our contents and front pages. Our magazine fits a number of conventions. It follows: the 'rule of 3' to not use more than 3 colours for a scheme; it uses a large title across the top; a barcode; true life stories; a mid-close up of a model and follows the same colour scheme and models into the contents page. Me and Katie decided on a target audience of teenage girls/young women. This gave us a mass audience and we hoped to appeal to them by using girly colours like purple, headlines that would get their attention about fashion/true life stories (which women love!), and by using a title that would appeal to women 'Chic'. As we decided to design a whole new magazine, we would be targeting a new audience, hoping to draw people in with our first copy by using a pretty model, clear modern design and interesting headlines.
Overall i was really happy with my magazine front cover, i felt it looked like a professional magazine, and was done neatly and with a lot of care. Also, if i was a woman im sure i would pick up the magazine and have a flick through! However, if i was to do it differently i would chose a closer up picture, so you could see the models makeup better, and try to elaborate on the contents page more to give a better idea of what we wanted it to look like by adding more pictures and titles.
I have learnt that producing a magazine is much harder than what i thought. Photoshop was slightly unreliable making it really difficult to make due to its Text tool not quite working properly, and make me realise it takes a lot longer than i imagined to produce a top quality peice of work. Also, it takes a lot of care, it cant be rushed otherwise you get a really tacky peice of work. After producing my magazine contents n front page, i think ive decided i would like to produce a film as i had more fun producing my film prelim than my print.

Finishing Our Print Preliminary

Once we decided which pictures we want to use, we had to upload them onto Photoshop. We could then adjust various aspects of each picture, such as the contast, brightness, and size. Once we had edited the picture to look how we wanted, we could then also use a tool to outline the outside of our picture, leaving no background colour - perfect to put as the background of our magazine. Now the picture was complete, we had to start adding text. We decided on the name 'Chic', the price of a £1, and what special feature articles we would advertise. We chose the colour scheme of blue, purple and black as we thought they suited well and would appeal to women, and also chose easy to read modern fonts to appeal to the target audience.
We continued these colours onto the contents page to show continuity and also used another girl to model, so then we had more variety.

Print Preliminary

To start our magazine cover and contents, we had to figure out the main features of what makes a successfull magazine. We analysed different magazines and then planned our front page and our contents page, using inspiration from other mags to help us do this. Then we had to go find a model, someone to be the face of our magazine. Once we had collected a wide range of different angled/different posed shots we could then upload them onto a PC to decide and short list our favorites.