Medium Close Up Shot

This is an example of a medium close up shot which i have taken myself. I need to use a medium close up shot for my college magazine cover, this will help me develop my skills for my final peice.

Moodboard

This my moodboard which i created to give some initial ideas towards the planning of my magazine front cover. I have shown a variety of different fonts i could use for my masthead, some cover stories i could use and also some pictures which represent college magazines.

LIIAR

L anguage
I deology
I nstitution
A udience
R epresention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MAPu_9oyLY

this is a video showing how to create a magazine cover using photoshop i hope to use the same technique as the man does in his video
i think photoshop is the best software to use when making a magazine cover beacuse you can do alot more advance things on photoshop
Things on photoshop are alot more advance but they are very easy to use aswell the tools do there job but do not cause you great stress in trying to figure out how they work

Contents Page of NME magazine

Heat Magazine front cover

Institution- Heat (Masthead)

Weekly magazine

Cover Price

Website

Victoria Beckham has been made to be the main image, it is a long shot showing her whole body in order to exaggerate the Cover line making her look skinnier than usual.

Codes and Conventions of a Contents page

-Page numbers
-Sub titles
-Pictures to describe topic
-Sponsors
-Feature stories
-Regular stories
-Some kind of Welcome note
-Website