Evaluation
Having learnt and began to put everything I’ve learnt to the test, I was able to include the majority of the techniques when making my magazine cover to make it is interesting and successful as I could make it.
The main feature of my front cover was the masthead. I felt it was very important because it is one of the main aspects of the cover that will grasp the attraction of the consumers and it is extremely important that your viewers are aware of what magazine their reading without confusing it with its other competitors. Having decided I was going to base my magazine around the media area of the school I named it using key terminology from the subject. “Mise on Scene” means every element that is placed inside the scene to be captured by the camera : lighting, costumes, props, set, performance. However the magazine does not spell the first word correctly, this is because ‘The Misbourne School’ can also by recognised as its nickname ‘Miz’ or ‘The Mizzy’ It doesn't take a genius to realise that both mise and miz sound the same , therefore I introduced my schools slang name to the media terminology to create the magazines name. I didn't want to dress the magazine up by overcrowding it with a heavy font or lots of cover lines so I chose the elegant version, using a similar font to ‘Harpers Bazaar’ and a strong image that your viewers would want to look at. Thinking that all of this was easy and refusing to clutter my cover page I wanted to approach a clean, vibrant looking cover page with no witting other than to state the date and the the masthead. I therefore needed to work around doing something different with my cover lines. Having looked at other magazines for examples and ideas I decided I was going to introduce to my readers what was inside the magazine through the use of images. These few images would by at the bottom of the page spaced evenly to create the slick finish. For example if one of my stories was about who was prom royalty, I could choose a photo of the prom King and Queen with there crowns on to enhance the story.
I was successfully proven to be to inexperienced to do the manipulating of the image at that moment and could not find a way to change the square shapes into circles which was extremely frustrating. nHaving tried everyday I could think of to change its shape I was defeated and just had to use the square images at the bottom of the page which did not look as good as I had hoped it to look.
I wanted my strongest feature to be my central image, having noticed on previous school magazines that their chosen models didn't know hot to act around the camera which made them look uncomfortable making the overall image seem unprofessional and ineffective. This is why I have chosen too models who are confident and are styled for the genre and content of my magazine, which is in this case a ‘Prom Special’, I have had my models mode of address directly at the centre of the camera so that it seems intimate and that they are inviting you as the reader to experience the special night with them. My magazine is targeting mainly the years ten and eleven, as I am trying to exclude everybody who would not be interested in the excitement for prom at that moment.
Because the magazine is a special edition, I did not think it would suit the style I was going for if I put cover lines and plugs all around there faces, therefore to make it look original and different I wanted to place the cover lines at the bottom of the page and convert the content to circular photos. The photos represent everything to do with prom for example theres a photo of a girl and a boy together both in their prom suit and dress, this is to portray what to wear to prom. Also supplied for my readers is special interview with prom royalty, this is to attract the younger years, in this interview the prom King and Queen will tell us how they got that title, what brands they were wearing and what they were doing to prepare themselves for the evening can intrigue even below my targeted audience as who isn’t interested in knowing what their school idols get up to?
Whilst making this front cover I have learnt many new skills and been taught how to apply them to professional soft wear, like Photoshop and InDesign, which is how I made the cover. I had to manipulate my images and cover line images to create a stylish sneak and effortless cover. Due to Media being partially English based, my vocabulary has increased and matured, this is because I am being taught how to describe the content of what I'm analysing fully and and with a certain extent of knowledge. I have been able to use an mention key terms such as plugs, masthead, central image, direct mode of address and cover lines.
There were many aspects of my magazine that did not come out as well as I had imagined them t look, however the overall finish was not unsuccessful, I was pleased with what my central image portrayed and what the effect is that you can explore from their expressions and what their wearing even though because I did not use a professional, quality camera the image was quite pixelated and blurry, I am also proud that I came up with alternative ideas to try and excel my magazine cover and finally I put a lot of though to my masthead to make it witty and fun, I thought the masthead was very effective due to the media terminology ‘mise on scene’ however because the school is called The Misbourne, I converted miss to miz so that it was individual and personal to the school itself. Because of my time limit after spending so much time trying to choose from multiple images for the front cover, I therefore needed to rush the rest of the cover so that I would meet the deadline.
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