Editing the Magazine Day 1 and 2

On Friday we were in the editing room and used photo shop so we could edit the photos and also start the cover of the magazine. The group of 4 split in pairs so one pair who were Amrita and lipi who done the summer edition and Lisa and I done the winter/autumn edition.

Lisa and I started to edit the photograph, we got rid of the blue background which the photo was taken on. we opened a new A4 page so it was the right size for a magazine. deciding on a colour for the background of the magazine was the next step, this seemed to be easy but it wasn't. we wanted a colour that wouldn't over take the image. we also didn't want to break any conventions of a pop magazine. searching on the Internet on other pop magazines made us realise that the background of magazines were mainly plain like the Top Of The Pops magazine (see below).

using a deep purple shade made the photograph stand out. both the groups then had to decide on the masthead, which had to be the same font in every edition.
As we are producing two editions of the magazine we had to have the same concept running through out the magazine.

Day 2 of editing

we got straight into the editing. firstly we had to tidy up the edges of the main image as you could still see some of the blue background. this was quite difficult, we used the magnetic lasso aswell as the magic rubber to do this because it was very intricate and detailed.
After doing this, we decided we needed more supporting artists on the cover which would attract the 11-15 year old girls. the artists we chose was the Jonas Brothers, we chose them because they are new, fresh and the young girls would get attracted to them because they are attractive young men and are famous in the world of pop. cutting them out of there white background was easy except some of the white of their clothing disappeared. Using the shape tool we made a square so that we could put it behind the Jonas Brothers so the would stand out. we chose a colour that could incorporate with magazine. choosing a sherbet yellow which was already on the jacket of the model's (Lisa)jacket. we then re sized and repositioned it, we layered the image and shape so it was underneath the main image. the cover line for this image was "WIN 2 tickets for Jonas Brothers concert" this would attract readers to buy the magazine and also enter the competition.
the main cover line was not that difficult to come up with as we knew that it had to do with her number one single. we finally came up with "XCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Lisa on her new number 1." we had this going across the image so it filled up most of the bottom half of the image. we also put another square shape behind it in a green color but this wasn't in block green colour but the opacity was decreased so it was translucent but still could see the green. the colour of the font was orange similar to the color of the masthead so all the colours tie in stand out in front of it's green background.
As Lisa was holding an ipod we had to make up a cover line for that. The finalized cover line was "COMPETITION win a signed ipod by Lisa". The colour of the font was the same orange as the main coverline as it is linked to the same artist.
attaching a barcode,price and the issue date on was very easy, the cost of the magazine is £2.80 we resized this so it wasnt to big this is because poeple might be put off by the price and not purchase the magazine. The price had to be expensive because it is a monthly issue and not weekly. the slogan for this magazine is "bring out the music in you", we chose this because it is music related and also it sounds like a song from High School Musical which alot of young girls would watch and can relate to.