PART 2
After all my breif research on teenage magazine I was told to write up a treatment to finalise my idea of which magazine I am going to create which is a movie magazine called Teen- premiere, with a motto saying “a movie magazine for youngstars,” which signifies that it’s a magazine for young people who are into movies as the questionnaire finds the type of movies that many would go for is either action/adventure or gangsters movie. The treatment explain what form or style I’ll be using, the theme with particular features that will be appealing for young people, so the magazine needs to represent full of life with wild themes, plenty of colours and images presented that will be very appealing, and also the language and the presentation need to be less formal as many movie magazine tend to be more formal looking. I have written about including a potential advertisement and who are the editorial team.
Looking back at my treatment page will help me to create a plan of finalising each pages which are the single page, the double page and most importantly the front cover.
So what I firstly did was planning 3 drafts of single page, double page and front cover and made three different design that you will find in a typical movie magazine. I kept looking back at my textual analysis of how they presented their pages well which was also a guideline for designing my very own. After drafting my designs I made a breif comments about my pages and how am I going to create the layout and what sort themes, fontstlye and colour I will be using. I also did a it of research by asking around people that will design did they preferred to have for each pages. I agreed with the majority and chose the layouts that most people voted for. For the double page design is an article about Will smith and it’s an interview so I will be finding research about his biography so I can design my own interview straight onto word processing on the computer so I can then use it when it comes to my construction. For the single page is going to be a short article of Scarface movie and the main heading is called “Klassic Movies” so every time an issue of my magazine is out ,this page will be representing every movies that made it big in the history of entertainment. For the front cover will be Will Smith ‘definitive interview’ and at the side of the page will be more stories and found images and across the page I will presenting my original images representing as ‘new stars of 2005.’ Then on top of the page my third original image with be at the top of my name of the magazine and it will be advertising a new horror movie, so I will taken images of eyes and facial expression.
This then made me go on to further research of variety of themes, such as finding different backgrounds on the internet with the search engine such as and www.google.com that will be suitable for a movie magazine, a colour analysis will help me choose which colour, I will be presenting on each page, the main colours are blue, white, red, black, with a bit of silver and gold for the front cover. I will be using different tone effect for example two-toned.
The next research is using photography and where I’ll be presenting my three original images which all going to be laid on the front cover, as the planning of my design shows this. I will also be finding images on the internet as I am doing an movie magazine I will need to find more than one celebrities for my magazine.
I also did research on typography which was very important as I started analysing different typography that different movie magazine uses for example, Empire magazine and Total film uses variety of bold colours in order to fit in a theme each time they issue their magazine monthly, the celebrity they view such as Star Wars cast, they would either use red or blue in order to fit in the theme of the page. A useful website that I have found that is good for creating logos and headings is . I will be creating my typography for the front cover. During my further research I will be pasting screen dump to show evidence of where I got my images from and what website I am searching and later on I will showing screen dumps of how I am constructing my design on to the computer using a recommended software that will be suitable for my production.
After my planning and doing further I must make sure I keep up to my deadline especially when it will come to constructing each page that will take up one week and I had to make sure I keep one week off for drafting my report and keep my production completed successfully.
PART 3
After planning and finalising the layout of my design I will be constructing my pages using these softwares which are Micro-soft Publisher for my double page mainly as I can easily arrange the page layout and it also gives my guidelines to balance information and images on each side of the page. I can also use Microsoft Word as well but I prefer using this for my single page and for the front cover I will be using again Microsoft Publisher as I can easily insert images and move around it quickly and effectively. I will also be using Adobe photoshop If I want to edit my found images from the internet such as images search bar which also gave me a variety of links of where the image originated from, and for my original images that I have taken by using a digital camera and took more than 10 images and used a lead that connected from the camera to the computer so the images can be loaded on the hard drive and then I burnt most of my images onto a cd/rw writer as it took large amount of space on my work file.most of the images were close up of the eyes and the facial expression and a mid long shot for the face up to the shoulders posing towards at the camera. I then printed all my original images and chose 3 or 4 that I will be using on the front cover. Using the digital camera was very new to me despite I had the idea of how it works , I have learnt how to use these software very effectively especially burning files and data, from the college software called burnrom, as I normally use to be burning MP3 music files. I have also learnt how to use the photoshop as before my previous projects when I was creating my action/adventure poster, I used the basic methods I used before which helped me edit my photos well. I did mostly cropping and using magneto lasso to grow round the image I want or if I wanted to resize the image I would select free-transform, then resize my image and later on apply. To keep the quality of my image high I would increase the gradient and the resolution and if I wanted to balance the colour of the image I would select brightness/contrast on the filter menu. To balance the facial features I would highlight the original colour from the image, then using a paintbrush colour the areas for example, my mate had spot on her forehead, I would then highlight the colour of her skin and use a paint brush and cover the spots to get a clear model look. For the found images I mainly cropped the background and add a new coloured background either red or blue ( this also applied for my original images ). In order to create a background I must add a new layer and then choose the colour, or I can create my own background by using the fill effect on Microsoft word and save it as a picture file (bitmap) and I paste it on to paint.bmp software, and then I can insert the file on the photoshop. Then I will be able to paste the other images on top.
When I was designing my double page on Microsoft Publisher I firstly inserted the images and laid it on to the page so I can see where I can put my information. I then added the main heading by using wordart and then use fill effect by inserting a creative background which I saved as a picture file. I also used wordart to present the quote stated by the star on top of the image to make the page look realistic. The font style I used was first comic sans, but my tutor advised me that it would look too “comic” then an actual interview look. You can see my drafts of how altered some changes and did some correction.
For the single page I used the same method for imaging and information, but using Microsoft Word as I didn’t have Publisher installed when I was finishing creating this page at home. For the background it may look white but if you look closer I added a watermark image of the movie frontcover of its DVD or Video, it makes the page look appealing and unique. For the typography I used for this page, I went to and created my heading “Klassics Movies,” and the word scarface was an actual heading used from the movie.
For the front cover was mostly inserting images that I had manipulated from before and added new headings such as “Top 10 issues” and “win a trip to LA,” in order to get the readers attention. The font style I mainly used was impact as it gave that effect as you find in a typical movie magazine. The font colours was mainly white, silver and gold to brighten up the page as the background colour was slighltly dark and the red strip across the page saying “ new stars” which I had placed my original images, so it would be appealing and stand out well. The typography of Teen-Premiere, again I went to flamingtext.com and you can see the screen dumps I pasted onto my scrapbook, I showed the process of how I created the title for my magazine. I also inserted barcode which is a found image from the website , which is a similar engine to Yahoo. Most of my information throughout the whole construction was san serif especially on the word “Teen” which I used a different font style compare to the word “ premiere which was serif, but overall it looked very creative and attractive. The language throughout was informal and colloquial especially on the interview with Will Smith. Most of my pages took a large amount of space on my workplace so I had to delete some unnecessary files that was on the computer in order to have my pages completed without having any errors.
PART 4
Now I have completely constructed all the pages, overall I have found this very experiencing and very time consuming. The areas that I have found new was transferring images from the digital camera and then later on burining it onto a cd, which was very useful so if I do come meeting this type of project again in any other subject, I would be quick at using this type of equipment and experimenting it later on. Another area that I found quite useful was the Adobe photoshop. I was quite a beginner with this but now I know how to make my images look creatively good and how to manipulate them to bring out a high quality picture, with the tools provided and a handbook given by the tutor, this had strongly helped me improved my IT skills and progressed it even further.
Thirdly arranging double pages and front covers, I now know what size (cm) I can find to make it accurate and how to keep the layout when printing, especially the double page (by changing the printer’s properties)
The overall appearance of my magazine is I’m quite happy the result I have achieved and receiving comments from my peers, majority would definetly buy it as it looks completey original and the colours used on the front cover, you would never find in any other existing movie magazine. For the double page, many people liked the background effect and the gossip colomun that I had created on bottom of the double page, which they were very fond of. Since my target audience was teenagers, it would definetly appeal to them as I tried to put a lot images presented on each page than information.
What I was disappointed with was the time we got for constructing our pages, as we only had a week of working our pages. I believed that we should had an extra week in order to catch up with our construction but again I was happy to see I have completed my production and it gave me an idea of how it’s like in the media industry and how time consuming it can be for creating such a production like a entertainment magazine.
I had made plenty of improvements, especially on the double pages, getting advice from my tutor and the rest of the team, I had been keeping drafts to show I how worked some areas of the page that needed to be altered, which implicated my other pages such as the single page and the front cover.
Looking back at my treatment I had met my original aims which was my target group, teenagers and doing a celebrity interview of a Hollywood stars, but I also reflected a different cultered movies such as bollywood and martial arts movie, in order to make my magazine universal and multi-cultural. I also met my other aims such as purchasing this type of magazine monthly and the it would cost around £3.00. one thing I didn’t mange to meet my aim was potential advertising, as I didn’t include none on the pages.
Comparing my magazine to the real thing, I would say it kind of similar, especially with the layouts of each pages, but my magazine seems to be more unique especially with style of my typography,”Teen-Premiere,” the different background used for each page.but I did include the important information that applies to all type of magazine which is the price, date, issue number, the barcode and the page number which is inside the magazine. The production was a pleasing result as I received good reaction from people who have added comments towards my magazine and helped me to be confident about the way my pages looked, and it turned out to be successful.
