Preliminary Activity 2

Task:

Using DTP and photo shop, produce the front page of a new college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student, in a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. 

In addition, produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of the program. 

Or front cover had to include the date, web address, master head, price, cover lines and a image. 

 

I went in a pair with Becky, and we both had the same idea of doing a fashionable front cover. We thought because the magazine had to be aimed at a target audience of our age group and had to be suitable for school use, we decided to do a magazine which could be used in textiles. 

The title we cam up with for our magazine was "City Art" we decided on this title because of the front cover we had decided on. Our front cover is going to be of a girl in a elegant dress, wearing worn our worker boots. The back ground of the shot is going to be in a rough end of a city where broken glass and grafete are. We wanted to do this as our front cover as wanted to show the contrast between the rough city and the elegance found within it. 

The cover story's we're going to put on our front cover are; Rural Meets Elegance, The Way Of Making The Weird And Wonderful Cat-Walk Dresses and Make Fair Trade Your Style. We thought all of this topics fitted in with the magazine as all of them have something to do with textiles or fashion. 

On the contents page we wanted to have two photos, one of the front cover girl in the same rough place, but in a different pose, the other photo is going to be of a review of one of our topics from the front cover. We decided to make our contents page look more attractive we would have a dirty brick wall as the border, this would then also fit in with what our magazine is about and what its about with the inside issue.

We rented out a camera and went out into Lutterworth down Water Works Lane where there's a big grafete wall, which in our real magazine cover we'll use something with more variety and in a more rough area. 

Because the girl who we want to use for our real front cover was in a lesson me and Becky had to stand in and do a draft of our photos, we decided on what we want the "model" to pose like, we thought that if she was standing up against the wall with her dress and boots on full view with a vale in her hand, again showing her elegance.