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Dear Moderator,

I have completed all the tasks in this process myself including my preliminry task, a school magazine as well as my music magazine which I have made a front cover, contents page and double page spread for. I have completed all these using Photoshop and I have made my evaluation using Prezi. I have included in my blog, the different things which I used to help me throughout this process and I hope you enjoy looking through it all.

From Lizzie Marsh
Candidate Number: 9121

Evaluation

This is my evaluation which I made using prezi...

http://prezi.com/lihe1qqul69-/evaluation/?kw=view-lihe1qqul69-&rc=ref-33362105

Double Page Spread, Finished...

Before this I had each page of my double page spread separate, I left them separate to make it easier for myself when editing them both on Photoshop, but now I have finished editing I have joint them together to show that it is a double page spread and that I do know that this is the way it is meant to be...

Contents Page, Finished...

Front Cover, Finished...

Double page spread, 2

This is the second half of my double page spread (both pages will be put together when finished) and similarly to the first half I have the same white wall background and pictures at the side of the page. This is to ensure that the both pages link to eachother and that if the magazine was taken apart, it would be easy to put it back together because of how similar the two pages are. I also used the same 'REPLAY' banner which I used on the contents page to keep in the readers mind of which magazine they are reading.  

I used two pictures this time because there was more space to fill and I thought it would make it look more interesting. For the bottom image I copied and pasted the whole image into this page and then used the eraser tool to go round the edges and get rid of the background. For the top images I used the magnetic tool to cut around each of the girls and then joined them together again on this page just so I got rid of the whole background of the setting in which they were in. 

I used the same font and colours for the interview using blue for the questions and pink for the girls answer. I also used a quote from the interview which is bigger than the rest of the interview and beaks it up a bit and makes it more interesting.

At the bottom of the interview I put in the details about how to download the girl band album for free using the code which is given. I also included a part where the readers could get in touch with the magazine and get involved in what questions they'd like the magazine to ask and suggestions of who the magazine could interview. This will make the readers feel more included into what the are reading and would hopefully get a good response.

From my planning of the interview I didnt actually use everything which I wrote down because I didnt have enough space unless I made the text really really small, but I thought it would be better to make it readable and miss parts out rather than write it all and have the text tiny.



Double page spread, 1

For my first page of my double page spread (both pages will be put together when finished) I made the background a white wall, and then I added the 2 pictures of Remi and Katie and placed them by the side below the title. Both the images of the girls are from the same picture and I used the magnetic tool to cut around each of them and then I placed them at the side and rotated them round so it looked like they are poking out from round the wall. for the title of the interview I made sure I used the same font, and colour as the bands name on the front page to make it linked.

Then I wrote the interview, and using my ideas I got from More magazine, I decided on having larger quotes from the interview as a subtitle. I also used a brief introduction as well which was bigger than the actual interview. I made sure I kept with the colour sceme of pink and blue as well...

I made the questions in the interview blue and the answers pink to define them as different and make each part stand out. Also to keep with the colour sceme of the whole page. I made it so there were two colums of text to make it look like a more proffessional interview.