Jack Jarvie WGSB Media AS

Brief

Preliminary exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP.

I had an idea for my front cover as soon as the brief was read out to us, i wanted to make the pictures the main focus to grab the audiences straight away with the main influence being my brother the football star with an exclusive interview inside.

The images like i said were an important part of my magazine i wanted a hard working student on the front cover to represent the ethos of this hard working school and to inspire other students. Sport is a large part of the school with football, rugby and cricket all played here so i wanted my other image to represent the sporting side of the school with my brother posing as the year 9 captain to influence and inspire others to join in at rugby and football.

My main issue with my photo of my brother starring as the year 9 football captain is the background i took the picture with a plain white wall behind him when i should of chosen a more sporting background for example a football pitch, goals posts or rugby posts i have learnt by this mistake and now understand how big the effect of the background has on the picture.

The cover lines were also an important part of my magazine helping the audience truly understand what is involved in the magazine, i wanted to cover all ages but specifically year 7s, i thought the cover line about the year 7s "tips for year 7 how to settle i

n with ease" was truly effective making them feel with ease and comfortable with there new surroundings and also targeting the 6th form.

Contents page:

I wanted to keep the contents page f the same style as my front cover for example using the same font for my clear contents heading at the top of the page and using similar colours to keep that house style running throughout.

The pictures on this document again were very important to me i wanted the readers to know what the stories were about before reading any text, so again i went for the theme of two hardworking students and my brother posing as the the year 9 captain, i had an issue on the picture of the two students with there being too much glare on the camera so i changed where they were sitting and lowered the blind slightly and the problem was resolved.

In the build up to making this contents page i analyzed other contents pages and i noticed that they change the font on the contents for different sections so i decided on this as well i used four different fonts for four different sections i think the main benefit of this is so the readers can establish what genre of the magazine they are reading just by looking at the font whether it is sport, year 7 or revision tips.