Rosie-May Bagshaw Year 2 Media Blog 2020

PLANNING FOR MY FRONT COVER These images include a lot of experimental work on my front cover pages. In the first I tried using different layers in red, green and blue colours to create a 3D effect which I thought looked edgy and therefore draws in teenagers who find this aesthetically pleasing. In the third image you can see that I have attempted a shadow like effect with Ombre in the background and using lines to draw attention to the middle image. I did like how this turned out however I found it to be too 'loud' for a front cover. I also found the image goes against typical front cover conventions-there are two people instead of one and no direct address to the camera. The experiment helped me learn more about photoshop and I may use the image in a front cover page as I was pleased with the outcome. In the second to last image of the two girls I experimented with different hues rather than just basic black and white or colour images to make my magazine stand out from

Magazine Front Cover Analysis Masthead “GRIND” magazine title. Ambigious-can reference working hard to reach goals (“daily grind” “back on the grind” modern day ‘slang’) or could reference sexual nature. Targets men in particular. Colour Scheme Blue and green stereotypically male associated colour scheme. Sense of nature and natural atmosphere, wheat in his hand and field setting. There is contrast however in the pink in his clothing implying femininity. Fonts / Font Sizes Sans serif masthead font so less classic and formal, more modern and alternative. It has large text that is serif font, however, which means there is a nice mix of both types of text. Since the magazine is published in Japan there is Japanese text, but this is slightly smaller; perhaps the English is intended to draw in a wider target audience as the magazine is already easily available to the Japanese and therefore large text is less necessary. The