Evaluation for my school magazine product.

To create my school magazine front cover I first had to look at two other school magazine covers and analyse them. The two that I looked at were the ‘palmer post’, a newsletter for canon palmer catholic school and the other was ‘High Profile’ the school magazine for St Edwards School for girls.

To begin my own school magazine front cover I had to use the software Photoshop elements. This was suggested to us to use because it is the suitable software to create this type of project and it would be much easier to complete a magazine. To start off the project I used a digital camera to take my photos, and once done so, I used a USB connection wire to import these photos onto the computer so that I can use them. Once I had done this I had to crop around these pictures so that they can be fit to use on the covers or even on the contents page. When I had done this and added my pictures in the correct place on the cover, I then had to start adding my text. I used the text type tool to add my text and seeing that the apple imac computers have special features, I could move the text around the page how I wish without having to delete what I have done already. I then used the same tool to add other texts on other places on the cover. To add effects on these texts, there was a link ‘layer effects’ by pressing on this I could choose what I want my images to look like. This gave me other options like making the particular layer visible, not visible or transparent.
My media product challenges other real media products because I have decided to use more colours and out them together. As my media product is a designed for a school magazine, it is aimed at students and teachers or all ages