MAGAZINE CONSTRUCTIONCallum HennCandidate no: 7104

The first stage in the magazine production process was to take the pictures. The original raw photo was taken in the first scene location, as you can see from the image below. The photo on the left is ta image of where the photo shoot would take place and the photo on the right is the photo that my colleague and I decided to manipulate using Adobe Photoshop.

STAGE 1

STAGE 2Now that the raw photo has been uploaded into Photoshop it gave me

an my colleague an opportunity t start manipulating the image. Where the weather as good during the day of the photo-shoot it meant there was very little editing to do for contrasting and brightness. The only editing we decided to do was to edit the main antagonists face into the concentre pavement of the image of the main protagonists that can be found in scene 1. The tools I used for this to make the face was make it a separate layer, use the magic wand tool to circle just the face and the hair, crop what was left and the add a transparency filter on to the face so that the face could be laid on to the concrete.

STAGE 3 Now that the two photos had ben manipulated and had been

merged into one photo. I put the photos into Adobe InDesign. From here I locked the image into place and begin to plan in adding in the masthead, sell lines, tag-line and other generic conventions. The reason why I used Adobe InDesign was because I'm now confident in using it because I used it for my Poster as well as my production work at AS level.

I had to make sure that I looked around on the internet for different fonts from what I used in the poster. I visited 1001fonts.com once again to make sure that I got correct fonts that match the genre (horror) i.e. blood dripping text etc… These are the fonts that I found…Every other font that can be found later on the cover is a default iMac font or unknown import.

STAGE 4 The next stage was to develop the other generic conventions of a magazine.

My colleague and I came to the conclusion that the title ‘Scarelebrity’ would be used for the mast head, we would include various other conventions that should help enhance the realism in the magazine such as, barcode, issue number, price, date of issue, tag line and various sell lines. As you can see from the compilation of images below I prepared all of these ready to be dragged straight onto the image.

I felt that I needed to put some form of banner along the top and the bottom of the magazine so that it didn’t look like a random title had just been slapped on top of an image, I chose to use a image of a old piece of wood to make the dominant image and masthead contrast each other.

STAGE 5 Now that all the other generic conventions had been developed using

InDesign. I was able to slap them on to the magazine very easily just like I did in the poster, the only thing I had to make was is that I made use of space that wasn’t needed and I put the most attractive sell lines at the top and the least attractive ones at the bottom. I feel that over all my magazine has been developed well and looks fairly professional however I think that it is the weakest of the two ancillary pieces.