Editing the Music Magazine Day 1, 2 and 3

Day 1 - It was so cool! Me and my partner Lipi were doing the Summer edition of our music magazine. Our whole group now decided on the name 'Melody' This title was not only shorter than our previous title but it was also music related and was something which teenage girls would want to read!

Lipi and I firstly edited our central image which was me! We cut out the blue background which was not needed and it was a mission to do as my hair is a very dark black and due to the flash from the camera there were white patches which was very difficult gettin rid of. After getting rid of the unnecessary bits of teh image we had to chose a background. We firstly chose a vibrant background, which was creative and busy. It was animated music notes and headphones and DJs, fiiled with bright rainbow colours. We thought it was a little too much, so we decided to go for a completely plain tangy orange which would also suit our theme of the summer edition. We now chose a font for a title 'Melody' which was 'bauhaus' font. This font looked perfect as it was not too boring nor too childish. The same font was used for our website 'www.melody.com' and also our strapline ' Bring Out The Music In You' and also for the price '£2.80' and date 'May 1st - 30th 09'

Day 2 - I was unable to attend this media lesson as it was a Hindu religious festival. But my fellow partner Lipi continued the work. Lipi edited things like the fonts and colours and added texts. She also decided that as my picture was taken facing slightly side ways, it would have looked worng to position the image of me in the middle, so we positioned it on the right hand corner of the A4 page and enlarged the image.

Day 3 - We now had quick and easy things left to do, although it took most of the lesson. We added a main cover line which was an exclusive interview with Amrita (the main star.) We had also added a pink box vertically around the chest which included the main cover line.
As we were only allowed two images from the internet we used an image of Britney Spears which was placed on the middle left side of the page. The caption/story line under her picture was Britney: "The Ups and Downs Of My Life" We also had a picture of the band 'Take That' which was placed on the top left hand side on the page. Beside their image was a caption advertising two tickets to be won. In the middle of 'Take That' and Britney Spears' picture was another story but without any images. It was 'Girls Aloud vs Sugababes' We also added font styles to make the music magazine look more lively and professional.

The really hard task of editing was choosing colours and fonts as well as styles for the font.
As well as editing the magazine we got to learn and get confident using Photoshop, which was a very good experience for us all!