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Before making a small change: The text for the welcoming of Life, likely would have been fine underneath the screenshot of the magazine say that it was for later issues and wasn't a brand new magazine. But where the magazine is a brand new real-life magazine, it makes more sense for it to be placed elsewhere and be the first thing you see.  My Magazine Website completed: When opening the website you see a little bit of text welcoming and introducing you to my magazine which let's you know about the magazine and it's aims.  Then further down on the homepage I decided to include stories which are featured on the covers of the issues created, this is not typical for a real life magazine, however something more was needed since there are only 2 issues of Life compared to many other real life magazines websites which feature multiple covers for many issues. I not only included the stories, I included yet again the front covers of my magazine to help promote the magazine by makin...

Magazine progression

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 Package 3 - 27/09/21 When starting to put the magazine together I decided to use shapes to help with the placement of text and to help to magazine to stand out like all real life magazines do. By the 3rd package and the 3rd lesson I'd decided on the font which I had wanted to use throughout my magazine to make it look conventional and like a real life magazine. By this time I've managed to take a few photos and had started to add them where I want them to be. At this point the only thing I hadn't started or considered was a cover for the second issue.  Package 6 - 18/10/21 Note: contents pages didn't change.  By package 6 I'd added many elements, and decided to copy the layout from my first issue for my second after looking at multiple different real life magazines and coming to the conclusion that they tend to keep the same layout over all of the different issues, the only main difference in the colours used over the magazine. By this point I hadn't yet decide...

Research

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Wednesday 12th May 2021 Research: Codes and Conventions L/O: To analyse similar products. Magazine Analysis: Two covers and two contents pages for:  Genre codes and conventions - content & layout How house style is established /use of font/colour/images Representation - magazine & artists  Ideology Production Values TA appeals/links Cover 1: Real life magazines use very bold and bright colours, despite the cover lines that feature on their covers. They use a lot of red's, yellows and purple here with a white font on top of the colours. The writing is seen in a white bold font which is mostly covering a plain block colour background with only occasionally having the text over the images. The background of this cover has a purple background and we can see that the main image has been cut out from another image, this suggests a lower production value because of where the image is not a studio taken image.  We see the brands masthead in a similar style to the cov...