Pictures For My School Based Magazine

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An idea I thought of to base my school magazine on is a issue where the main focus would be based on studying tips for exam season. The magazine would be aimed at sixth form students so a target audience of male and female

ages 16-18.

Front Cover- Main PictureFor my school based magazine, I wanted to use a picture of students studying in a learning environment. I decided to take this mid- shot because it contains pupils who look interested in learning with plenty of papers on the table. The background is another reason why I chose this image because it shows a library which is a learning environment and the books in the background further show the support of the school. The picture I took turned out slightly darker than I wanted it to look. To overcome this, I used Photoshop to brighten the image and increase the saturation to make the colours pop out more, making my front cover as eye catching as I can. I also cropped it a little to put more emphasis on the students studying at the table as the focal point of the shot.

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Another picture I took to include in my school based magazine is a mid-shot of a student reading a book by the computer in the library. This compliments my initial idea of having my magazine be a guide for revision because it clearly shows a student in the foreground taking time to study in a quiet area. The picture also contains a good background with computers and books which help show the different revision recourses the school has and ideas on how you can study. I faintly edited this image in Photoshop also, increasing the contrast because I found the original image to be quite light and faded. By doing this, the image became more coloured and eye-catching for the target audience.

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I found that this close up shot of a book is a good picture to include in my School Based Magazine because it shows a student holding the book and the camera looking down on it as if the audience is reading it. Again, I took this image to Photoshop where I increased the contrast and saturation, making it as bright and colourful as possible to draw the target audience’s attention.

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The image on the left is another image I would like to use for my school based magazine. It is a mid-shot of a student looking at a map and it contains a lot of colour which is important in drawing the reader to the magazine and brightening the page as a whole.

I took a picture of another student working in the library because I found it was a suitable place and provided a good background which helps show the purpose of a magazine. By using students in the same age group as the target audience, it helps the readers to be more likely to pick up the magazine as it shows its aimed at them.

I decided to include this image of students working at a table for another one of my school based magazine shots. The background is interesting as it contains pictures from prom, which could be seen as a reward for hard work and getting through exams, helping students to be more dedicated to revising. The teacher in the background shows how the students can always get help and the colours in the whole image are bright and attention-grabbing thus making it more interesting for the target audience.The students are smiling and laughing which would encourage other students looking at the magazine to study because they can see it doesn’t always have to be a dull experience.