#TheBrook Front Cover And Content Page

What I Have Learnt

This first term of media studies I have learnt various techniques and conventions in order to make a magazine to the highest of standards to be to a standard of  profession. Such as;

• Holding shift in fireworks to resize an image, stopping it from becoming the right proportion (squished together or fattened)
• Media text: any media production, could anything from a movie trailer to a magazine that features a specific media product.
• Media form: the type do media used to communicate, such as movies - Sherlock Holmes, Salt, Hollyoaks 
• Conventions: elements to make up something greater, ingredients if you wish to make up a cake. 
• Genre: the type of category to which a media text belongs to; horror, comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi 
• Denotation: a literal meaning of a word, describing what you see in detail; a stick, brown stick, on gravelled surface, single leaf, green leaf.
• Connotation: association that connects words or meanings with emotional suggestions; loneliness, dirty, broken, fallen.

All this has helped me further my production of the magazine as without learning these key, essential things it wouldn't have been to the professional standard I want t to be at. Without learning how to use fireworks my pages would not have consistency, everything would have been askew and simple like a child had done it on MS paint. With knowing about connotations and Denotations I wouldn't have been able to see what the reader would see looking at my magazine, pictures wouldn't be relevant or hold any importance to being there. 

Finished Content page

Finished Front Cover

The audience of my magazine will be teens 13-18 from Plantsbrook school, ages 7 to 2nd year sixthform, also it will be for the parents of this audience as it will contain key information that they should know as well. All in all the magazine will appeal to them and make them want to read it.

 Image chosen, a mid shot, school children in smart uniform, smiling, perceived happiness, draws the eye. Text is readable, front cover includes the following conventions;

• Masthead
• Banner
• Features
• Image 
• Pug
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Draft front cover

Why I edited this draft in order to get a finished appropriate front cover.
I edited this draft to get a more suited cover, I realised my mistake of choosing the color blur as part of the main scheme, this is because blue has nothing to do with the school, the school colors are red and black, so i change this.

Also the image, I liked and was happy with the picture I had taken and chosen as my cover image, however it didn't have a main focus, the picture is just there. Changing it to an image of two smiling children seem more appropriate as people who don't attend the school would know that it was the East Wing corridor and would seem a bit bizarre.   

Draft Front Cover

Includes conventions such as mastheads, pug, features, banner.

Contents page layouts

Contents page layout ideas, here I will have a few images and a list of contents - features that I will have in my magazine, this will be things like;

• Revision tips
• Healthy eating
• Lunch menu 
• Activities (crosswords and such)
• Agony aunt 
• Activity clubs 

Content page will also include key things like;

• Images 
• Different fonts and sizes 
• Banners 
• Headlines
• Page numbers the content can be found on 

I have chosen to include pictures of students and of the front of the school building, as i do not want to have images of things completely off topic. The images will relate to the reader and the school. 

On my contents page I will be including pictures so that the page look professional. I will also be including a list of what will be in the mag.
This research has helped me make decisions by allowing me to see different layout and designs which help me decide what I think looks good to the eye and what does not.

Conventions of a Contents page