1. Editing our Another DayMagazine CoverBy Jessie Connell
2. Planning After deciding on which magazine format touse,
deciding on our ethos and coming upwith a name, we were able to
start planningour magazine. We drew a diagram of thegeneral layout
that we wanted, and wrotedown ideas for prospective sell lines
andother conventional elements that shouldfeature on the front
cover.
3. Features As well as sell lines going down the sides ofthe
front cover, we also decided that wewanted to give our
readers/audiencesomething to take away with them.
Afterbrainstorming ideas about possible free pensor free mini
diaries, we eventually decidedon a pull out poster instead. This
meant thatwe needed to use a Puff on our front coverto advertise
that this was included in theissue.
4. Main Image After deciding on how our magazine would look
interms of conventions, we were ready to choose themain image for
the cover. We had taken a numberof stills for both our poster and
magazine on ourfilming day, so we had lots to choose from.
Conventionally, the feature of the main image givesdirect address
to the audience by looking straightat them, so we were able to
narrow down ourchoices for the main image to just photos whereEve
is looking directly at the camera. It took us awhile to decide but
we finally agreed on one.
5. Original Still
6. Photoshop and Layering As I had used Photoshop before
whencreating our film poster, I took predominantcontrol over this
task. I firstly imported the still into Photoshop, andimmediately
began creating new layers inthe order that they would appear, as
oftenthe Mast head is layered over the top of theimage as well as
the puff and sell lines.
7. Layers createdin the orderthat I wantedthem to appear.
8. Erasing the background I then had the task of using the
eraser to erase theback ground of the still so that it was
transparent.This took a very long time as it was such a
delicateprocedure; In addition to this, when we had takenthe
picture the wind was blowing, making smallindividual pieces of Eves
hair blow to one side. After continuously attempting to draw around
thesepieces of hair, I did take some short cuts and dragthe polygon
tool over particularly problematicareas of fly away hair, although
the rest waspainstakingly drawn around. After erasing the
background from the image, Iplaced the image onto a white
background, as isconventional with health magazines.
9. Adding conventional features After the background was
finally erased, Iwas then able to start adding in the
differentmagazine features to their designatedlayers. I firstly
added the Mast head and Skyline, asaside from the main image, these
are themost important features of a magazinecover.
10. Adding the Mast head andSkyline The lesson prior, we as a
group had browsedDaFont.com in search of an appropriatefont to use
on our health magazine. We hadchosen one called Dolce Vita,
andimported it into our fonts list. With this font downloaded onto
our fonts list,I was then able to use the template that wehad drawn
out to start creating the MastHead and skyline for our
magazine.
11. Mast head and SkylineThis is the Mast head and Skyline that
I added onto ourmagazine cover. The large, bold Mast head INSPIRE
iswritten in our downloaded font Dolce Vita, and iswritten in black
to follow the conventions of our teasertrailer, where our titles
and the title of our film is written inblack. The word health is
written in blue as this colour isa key part of our branding, due to
Eves diary being blueand featuring on the front cover.
12. BarcodeI was then able to add abarcode to our
magazinecover. I followed the example ofreal media text
WomensHealth by placing the barcodein the bottom left of
themagazine cover. Not allmagazines have a price on thefront, so I
did not feel the needto add this to the cover.The barcode was
placed on aseparate layer, in order for it tosit over the top of
the image ofEve.
13. Changing the colour of theSkyline However, when showing the
rest of mygroup the Skyline, they did not like the factthat health
was written in blue, andthought that it should instead be green
tonot only show connotations of health, but toalso convey nature
which is another keypart of our branding. However, I think thatour
magazine might have looked moreeffective if our highlight colour
hadremained blue.
14. Changing the colour of theSkylineThis is how the Skyline
looked afterchanging the word health from beingwritten in blue to
being written in green.
15. Adding sell lines andanchorage text From what I had
created, our group then began to add theAnchorage text to the front
of the magazine. We wrote the titleof our film Another Day on its
designated layer, and in thesame font and colour as it appeared in
our film in order to keepour branding constant. We then used our
template to add textaround it in highlight colours of black and
green to tell theaudience about an interview with the star of the
film, Eve. After completing this, we then added sell lines around
the sidesof our magazine cover, with conventional sell lines from
healthmagazines such as ways to keep healthy, as well as an
issuerelated to our film which was a celebrity talking about her
ownstruggles with anxiety, all of which was written in
ourdownloaded font, Dolce Vita. After doing this, we then added a
web address and socialmedia links for the magazine just under the
mast head.
16. Anchoragetext and selllinesHere is our groupsmagazine cover
afteradding sell lines andanchorage text. We alsodecided to
featurestories from real lifebloggers, as we hadused quotes from
reallife anxiety bloggers toinspire the voiceover forour teaser
trailer.
17. Puff andchanging textcoloursI then used the circle tool
inPhotoshop to draw our Puff,before advertising the free pullout
poster featured inside ofthe magazine. In addition tothis, I also
changed the fontadvertising stories from real lifebloggers from
white into black,as it fit with both the colourscheme of our
magazine andthe conventions of ourmarketing campaign as awhole, a
lot better.
