This is the preliminary task that I created for my AS Portfolio work. As you can see from even just a very quick glance this is not the best school newsletter ever created, and there are many reasons for this. To start with is the font, Comic Sans, which is widely known to be one of the most hard to read and generally worst fonts to use in any professional media production, this brings down the whole professional look of the newsletter which is of course bad. Next is the images and while the images themselves are not that bad, which we will talk about later, the blocky unfeathered nature in which the images have been placed on the newsletter is not very appealing, this once again brings down the professional look of the newsletter and makes it less appealing to the eye.
But even though this is not the best newsletter there are some things that I think work quite well in this. First of all being the colour scheme that has been used, blue, red and white, which are the colours of Deyes High School. This helps the audience associate this newsletter with the school and also makes the newsletter look slightly more appealing to people who may be reading is as the colours work quite well together. One other good thing is the use the school logo in the top right of the newsletter, this helps it to look a lot more professional as the logo instantly makes it associated with the school and gives a sense of authenticity to the newsletter. Lastly I feel that the images I have used within this newsletter are very good and this is down to a few reasons. One of these being that both of the images that have been used follow the Rule Of Thirds convention in photography making the images look a lot more appealing to look at than if they had not been taken with Rule of Thirds in mind. Also both of the images are related to the school and both give a good representation of the school just by looking at the images alone, this is good as it makes the newsletter more appealing at just a quick glance and may draw in more peoples attention.
This is the finished magazine front cover that I created for my AS Portfolio work. As you can see when compared with the preliminary task (Newsletter above) this looks very professional and a lot more appealing to look at even at just a quick glance, there are many reasons for this. First of all in the time between the preliminary task I was taught how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements which allows for a more professional looking product to be produced when compared with Microsoft Publisher which was used in creating my preliminary task, also I was able to do a lot more research on magazine front covers which allowed me to stick to tried and tested conventions within the genre of music magazine that I wanted to create helping to create a more professional looking magazine. Secondly I have used a much more appealing font on my magazine allowing for viewers to quickly read what is on the front cover quickly which in turn may grab their attention if they are interested with what is written on the front of the cover, this also helps the magazine to look a lot more professional when compared to my preliminary product. The masthead on my magazine front cover also stands out a lot more than the newsletter with the big and bold white text on the black background. The effects placed on the Main Story of my magazine also help to grab the attention of the viewers and make the magazine once again more professional to look at. The incentives banner, puff and barcode on the front of the magazine are all conventions of music magazines that you would expect to see on pretty much any music magazine, therefore I implemented them into my magazine to stick to the conventions of real life media helping to make the magazine look authentic and professional. Lastly the Main image used within my magazine instantly grabs the viewers attention with the sepia tone mask and also the Rule of Thirds once again makes the image more appealing to look at helping the general feel of the magazine to look more appealing.
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