Studying the previously analysed school magazine covers, in comparison to mine, I feel that my interpretation generally includes a lot of similarities between the popular codes and conventions apparent within those covers and contents pages that I have studied. Such forms that my front cover has as well as those studied, include a bold title that relates to the colours of my school logo and a large school related image, as present in 'CHiLL' magazine. My contents page similarities include a list format, a few images and sectioning of certain page themes such as in the 'evolve' magazine.
Although mine shares similarities I wouldn't say that my front cover seems overly similar to any of the others, because my main image fills the entire page and the cover generally has a fuller, busier feel. If I had to choose which magazine covers were most similar to mine I would say they were 'Fusion' and 'evolve' because they all seem to share a modernized and more colourful feel, I feel this may be due to the fact that those school magazines were the largest inspiration to me out of all the others I studied.
In comparison, the differences of my magazine include the lack of school logo that I have, this is due to the complications of original images and the inspiration of some covers not including logo's either. My cover and contents page also do not include the month of release or a colour theme, I feel that a specific colour lessons variety and adds boundaries so did not include one within my front cover, yet I did in my contents page to add contrasting order and structure.
As I fan of photography, I was previously experienced with using camera's, including the ones used for this task, so I found that aspect of the work enjoyable and understandable as appose to difficult. Because my photograph was taken inside, the majority of lighting was artificle, however, the subject model was positioned near a window so there were also some aspects of natural light. The creative and arty wall in the background injects a colourful and bright feel to the photograph which I am pleased with and I feel the bussiness will draw attention and interest, similar to such studied magazines as 'evolve'.
The main tool I used in Photoshop was the text insert during the creation of the magazine title and sub-headings, and the move tool to include extra images from other pages onto the main document. With a fair amount of practise beforehand, I was able to use Photoshop rather successfully and quickly which made the process a lot less complicated. I decided to only increase the brightness and contrast slightly within the images because I am personally not a fan of overly edited images as I feel they don't portray much photography talent and they take away the natural, honest look of the photos. I also cropped them slightly to focus more on the important subject and to fit neater on the page. I am pleased with completed front cover mainly because I like to look and composition of the main image.
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