In today's Media Studies lesson, I
created the contents page for my magazine. I used Photoshop to create the
contents page. To help me create my magazine contents page, I used the research
that I collected in a previous lesson, this research gave me more of an idea of
how my contents page needed to be set out and what I needed to include on my
contents page.
My magazine contents page
includes:
Banner
at the top-The banner at the top of the page, is a simple way
of informing the reading that this is a contents page. The colours represents
the target audience and goes with the colours on the rest of the page, this
makes the magazine look more consistent.
Copy
of the cover-A copy of the front cover is situated at the top of
the page; this shows the relation between the outside and the inside of the
page. There are arrows pointing from this, this means if the reader was
interested with something on the cover, they can find what page it is on.
Layout-For the target audience, the layout of the magazine
is probably the most important part of this magazine contents page. It
structures what is going on well and highlights the most important stories.
Date-The date is placed underneath the banner at the top
of the page. Although the date doesn’t stand out compared to the rest of the
page, it is still an important feature to the magazine and important that the
reader knows.
Some other features of my magazine contents page,
Include: Sub-headings, brief, Images
I chose these images, because they relate to some
of the subheadings, for example, 'uniform' there is a picture of a student in
her uniform.
Using, Photoshop, I had to edit my images, to
make sure the lighting was correct and if I wanted to crop it I can crop it. I
also added text and different shapes (arrow). Photoshop is a good way of
changing the colours to match the rest of the magazine and contents page, this
helps to keep the magazine consistent.
