Week 1

This week I started the preliminary task of the coursework – making a front cover and contents page of a new school magazine. I started by looking at the codes and conventions found of an existing school magazine. I looked at ‘The Bishopbriggs Academy Magazine’.  I was then able to use this as inspiration for when I came to make my own school magazine. I then made this blog so I could keep a log of my work.

I then went out and took photos of my friend Iona to put on the front cover of my magazine. I also took pictures of plants and other students working around the school for my insert pictures of my magazine. Once I had done this I started to put together my magazine front cover and contents page on Photoshop. The version of Photoshop I used was Elements 4.  

Next week I am going to start looking at the codes and conventions of music magazines. I am going to analysis 5 front covers, 5 contents pages and 5 double-page spreads. I am going to look predominately at ‘Q’. This is because I know I want to make a mature music magazine for popular and/or upcoming music artists/bands and having looked at a range of currently available music magazines I feel ‘Q’ is the most similar to what I am looking to create myself.