Progress in today's lesson

In today's lesson I finished off the letter from the editor by completing the paragraph and changing the font's to fit in with the whole theme of my contents page. I have also edited a picture which I have now added to my contents page. I will be adding two other faces for 'well known faces' in the circle on my contents page as my contents page needed more images in order for it to look appealing to the target audience.

Progress in the lesson

This lesson I have managed to make progress on my contents page. previously I had no page numbers or titles for the pages and now I have nearly finished the pages I am going to include on my contents page. I still need to edit and add in images to my contents page and improve the design slightly.

Front Page Progress

I have made progress with my front page by changing the colour of the masthead to fit the background of my magazine. I added a picture which I had taken of two of my friends to use as a main headline for my double page spread. It is going to contain information about the tour they did and about how famous they are now. I am going to include different headlines to my magazines to make the audience want to read my magazine and I am going to add different images to show the different parts of my magazine.

My progress this term

In the first term of media I feel that I have made a lot of process. Firstly I have got to grips on analysing different pieces of work and how one image or piece of text can convey a lot of different meanings and can be interpreted in different ways. I have learnt how to analysis pictures more and pick out individual parts of it which could give a certain effect.
Another thing I have learnt this term is the basics to creating a magazine as I had to create a school magazine without any help to show what I already knew about the conventions of a magazine front cover and contents page. From this I then start to learn different terms and techniques to do with media and specifically magazines. After this I started to design my actual magazine front cover by using pages to and then designing a masthead by choosing the most liked font and name which I created and asked my peers about. In this following term I am hoping to complete my front page, contents page and double page spread. I will be taking more pictures of people to add to my magazine and will make sure I am always referring back to my target audience.

Photo Editing

I have been trying out using different effects on pictures and seeing what the effects would do to the picture I have chosen. I cut out the background of the picture and added various effects to the picture to create a different theme. Although I have added different effects to the picture, I don't think the theme being used for the pictures will fit the pop magazine which I am doing and therefor I will need to use a different image to use for my magazine. By editting these pictures I get an insight in to what different effects do to different images and how making sure the picture fits my target audience is essential in to making my magazine a success.