Magazine practical production: tasks

 Research

1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project. Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and upload an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.

Sports illustrated

Fourfortwo 

GQ

2) Choose one of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then find three different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding.

Magazine brand : FourForTwo

Fonts, colours and typical designs: Typically uses bold headlines to grab readers attention, also using vibrant colours that stand out and 2 main colours for the magazine for example red and yellow and the design has a main central image in the middle with the head line across the image and cover lines down the middle

Language or writing style: Informal language to attract football fans and writing style is opinions, reports and from the players interview

Cover lines: written to grab readers attention, place down the left side and they highlight controversial topics or new information

Camera shot: Medium/close ups of the famous footballer the magazine is on and can use action shots during games and images looking straight at the camera

Planning

1) In your blogpost, write your main cover line (also called the 'main flash') - this is the main cover story that links to your central image. It must be 100% original - all your own words.

Rising star

2) Briefly plan the image you will need for the cover - model, costume, make-up, lighting etc. At this point, simply describe the image you need to capture.

Looking straight at the camera, medium/close up shot, standing up, high-key lighting 

3) Write the cover lines and any additional text you need for your magazine cover.

 declan rice two freekicks, new summer transfers

4) Sketch out your cover on plain A4 paper using your written planning. Take a photo of your sketch and upload it to your blogpost.

Photoshoot

1) On your planning document blogpost, state the date, time and location of your photoshoot and the name of the model or photographer you will use (you can choose anyone to be your cover model or you can be the cover model yourself).

Online tutorials

The best way to learn Photoshop is simply to start creating your magazine cover and learn as you go. There are thousands of tutorials on YouTube to help you - here are just a couple of examples of Photoshop tutorials: 

You can find an excellent InDesign tutorial here or alternatively try this: 

Publication to blog and evaluation

1) Once you have completed your design you need to save or export a copy as a JPEG image. Then, upload it to your blogpost. 

2) Upload two genuine covers of the magazine you have used and put them next to your front cover. This is a brilliant way to check how professional your work looks alongside the real thing.





3) Write a short evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? Does your cover stand up alongside the genuine covers of your chosen magazine? How professional is your work alongside those genuine examples?

In comparison to other magazine I think it stands up as it has the same format and structure, it is somewhat professional due to the image and the structure matches the example

4) Finally, what would you do differently if you completed this assignment again?

However, if I was to do this again I would use accurate football clothing and correct typography