Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Magazine Cover

As a group we decided that we should all pick a different picture to use on our individual magazines. We have also decided to use different names. For example, my magazine will be called 'Television Times' whilst Elena's magazine will be called 'Television Weekly'.
I started off by picking the picture I want and opening it on Photoshop. I do not feel confident on Photoshop, so when I got home I used a programme called Picasa to edit my picture. It was a excellent programme and I found it much easier to use and I created different versions of the basic layout of my magazine.


This picture was made black and white, but the red still showing on the characters to symbolise danger. I placed my magazine name at the top and other soap related stories around teh edges. I completed my cover with a barcode, date and price.

This is a colour version of the cover. I moved around date and price and i was also considering puting a christmas special banner on the bottom because of the date I had entered.
I have acknowledged that my picture was taken as a landscape photo so my cover could not be A4 sized. I have worked around this fault and made my cover look A5 sized.

This is my christmas special edition of the magazine. I may later add a border to the banner at the bottom of my page.

Website Development

On Tuesday 24th November we as a class visited the CLC to learn how to use a programme called iWeb, which is used to make website layouts and pages. There were only 3 members of our group present but we managed to do an individual site each, using the same template. Some of us were more comfortable with the software than others, but as a group I can say we are confident with using iWeb.

On Tuesday 1st December when my whole media class were trying to edit their work at school, we all encountered problems. We could preview our work but not change anything. One group will soon return to the CLC to gain information to share with the class on how we should overcome this problem, but until then work on our website is on standby.