Print Preliminary Task

For our preliminary we had to make our own college magazine and a film we started with the magazine because we can’t be in them and we didn’t have enough people to make the film.
We thought of loads of different ideas and our teacher was nagging us to make sure we did the work and the homework, so we came up with the idea of our teacher being this bad person. So the magazine was going to be on media, with so short story’s and reviews on how media is going so far. So we thought to use our teacher on the front cover. We took the picture of her lower than her so she looked in control, powerful and like the others students and people reading are smaller, weaker and less power. We also decided to make her eyes red to look more scary and crazed. I also got my teacher to look angry and to cross her arms and point her finger to look in control and bossy. Then we thought that we could have someone in the background behind bars so we got someone to stand against a brick wall looking sad, miserable and a bit scared. Then took a picture of a metal spiked fence and cut the fence and the person out and created two new layers and put them on. So now it looks like the teacher has a prisoner behind bars. You couldn’t see his face to well because the bars were too thick so we had to trim them down so you could see more of his face, also so you could see what expression he had as well.
The only colours we used were blue and green the same tones as the Lutterworth college logo. And the writing was in Chiller and century gothic bold and we had to make the Chiller bigger and bolder so the reader could see it clearly. The positioning of the writing took ages to find the right place and because there was another person on one side we couldn’t put too much up one side and the barcode had to be at the bottom and that took up some room. Most of the text was on the left and one was on the right with the barcode so it wasn’t taking up to much of the picture. The colour could have been bright so you could see it more but I also could have made the font bigger to see it more. As well as having two pictures at the bottom of two people. Which were scared and upset and they were taken against a blue background. The magazine was put together easily and edited easy and turned out better than I expected.