Looking back now, I am very pleased with my progress throughout the year, from my creation of my school magazine 'The CCC's' front cover & contents page to the final creation of products for my music magazine 'Renegade'. I hope that my progress is clear through the production of my final product in comparison to the first task that I was assigned to. I have realised that there is a lot of editing involved in making a magazine, not just in terms of the editing process but also the significance of mise en scene and lighting as well as the Recce of photos.
- My first task was to create a school magazine front cover and contents page. To carry out this task I used my school camera and three talents; two school students and a teacher. I used close ups and mid-shots for my camera angles and cropped the photos. I then added the images to 'Microsoft Word' where I placed the Masthead and the taglines. Although I used relevant symbols, a main cover line and a 'puff plug', at the time I felt that the cover was professional. However now that I am looking back and evaluating, I think that the cover itself is rather simplistic and I should have perhaps used two colour schemes as opposed to multiple use of colours. Having said this, I am pleased with the fact that I considered mise en scene for both of the images that I used. For instance, I took the main image in the library, ensuring that the books & tables were visible in the background and therefore ensuring that the location and relevance of it were clear to the consumer. - I got this idea from the research that I carried out into other existing school|educational magazines such as 'FFH' and 'Back To School'.
Here is a comparison of my preliminary task (left) and final music magazine front cover (right):
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Here are some clips that I have recorded to explain the comparison of my two front covers:
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