INTRODUCTION AND PHOTOSHOP KIRSTY

The first thing we did today was to look at existing magazine covers and think about the conventions of the magazine such as cover lines, strap lines, pictures, what the different things connote. One of the things we thought about was, if the main picture was partly covering the title, this could mean that the person on the front means more than the name of the magazine and therefore contents is more important than brand. I looked at MOJO magazine:





We looked at their strap lines, their colour scheme, what they were giving away and all the features that make people want to buy it. We then had to get into different groups and think about our magazine.


The Title of the magazine which we decided to call D2E (down 2 earth). we chose this name because all the girls in our group are down to earth people, and D2E is catchy.


Then we chose the genre of the magazine, we decided RnB because we all listen to that genre of music .


Then we decided to make our magazine a quarterly magazine because we liked the idea of having issues based on the seasons: winter spring summer autumn.


We decided to make the target audience for our magazine teenagers , so the contents will be mixed (explained later).


so, we then decided who will get what season, i got autumn, oyin got winter, catherine got summer and michaela got spring. we then went on to decide what costumes we are going to wear for the photo shoot, so we based the costume around the seasons i.e shorts, vest and sunglasses for the summer edition.

The contents of our magazine is going to be male and female RnB artists, this is because we want our magazine to appeal to both sexes. The latest songs and their lyrics, discounted gig tickets and all the latest information on up and coming artists and already famous artists.


We are also going to give away free gifts that correspond to the different seasons, for example, sun glasses for the summer, scarf for the winter, etc.
We then moved into the editing suite to learn how to use photoshop on the I-MAC'S to edit the images we are going to take in our photo shoot on thursday. The first thing we did was to create a folder to save out documents into. We then learnt how to apply colour to a blank background, then how to apply different graphics and shapes to the background. The different fonts that you can apply to the writing and how to navigate them quickly.



We then went on to put pictures onto the page. we put a picture of a girl onto a picture on tower bridge. we did this by cutting out the background, so that only the girl is cut out, we then transformed the picture of the girl on to the picture of tower bridge and made it look like she was there.