15/10/2009

I have completed the double page spread analysis of Kerrang and analysed the front cover (image at the side). Now that it has been completed I am going to start making draft designs for my front cover and contents page for the school magazine.

08/10/2009

I have made two detailed analysis of two different magazine front covers. Firstly I have chosen Mojo to analyse, which from the image at the side you can that I have done that. I have also analysed A kerrang issue, which I also then went on to analyse its respective double page spread.

28/09/2009

During today's lesson we split it into two parts, the first part learning how to use Adobe Photoshop and the second part leaving the room to take pictures for our draft magazine front cover.

Our teacher projected her computer screen onto the whiteboard for all to see and we would be in front of our own screens with Adobe Photoshop open following along. The teacher was teaching us how to open images, crop, clear spots, change colours, add text, view history, undo and some other features. We then played along with random pictures using these tools for practice.

The second part of the lesson we took the cameras out to take pictures for our draft magazine cover. The photos must be of students from the school and have a mid-range shot. I shared the camera with a partner and we took it in turns to take pictures. When we finished we returned to lesson to import our newly taken photos onto the computer in our own individual folders.