Creating The Nature Magazine

17/01/11 - Lesson Two

In this lesson, we were given the opportunity to go outside and take pictures of nature in order to choose one particular image for our nature magazines. In order to do this task successfully, my partner and I decided to take a range of pictures in order to choose one that we thought was good enough and so that we were able to keep our options open. Here are some examples of the few pictures we took.

In this photo that I took I decided to take a close up of any type of nature that appealed to me. I did this so that I was able to draw the audience in and to also get them engaged into what I was trying to sell. By doing this it enabled me to edit the photo on photoshop in order to get a more nature effect to it.

It was important that we took photographs in a different variety of places so that we were able view nature from different views and perspectives.

When taking these photographs we had to make sure that we showed consistency in  taking pictures of nature. Another thing that we had to consider were the camera angles.The reason being is that it would become much more interesting and it would also help grab the attention of the audience that I would have been trying to target which in this case would be older people between the ages of 30-40.After completing this task successfully we were then asked to choose one image in particular in order to start creating our nature magazine. Once we chose our picture, we then had to begin design our magazines in photoshop which in return gave us the opportunity to get used to photoshop and it also allowed us to be more creative with our designs.

This is an example to show my finished front cover of a nature magazine. From the example of my nature magazine, I decided to choose the photograph which showed the close-up of a twig followed by a raindrop dripping down. I felt that this particualr photograph would be effective as I thought as though it would help draw the audience in and they would hopefully be eager to know what will happen next. Moving on, whilst on the internet I thought it would be helpful to look at other nature magazines in order to get an idea of how to design the front cover of my magazine. I decided to add in a bar code and some text in order for the audience to be aware of what they can expect inside the magazine. The ''econnect'' logo in the corner was to show representations of nature. I also tried to make sure that I used the same consistency of colour so that I did not mislead the audience to cause confusion. A positive thing about this magazine cover was the way in which it was simplisitic and straight to the point. This would have been helpful to the audience as it will be easier for them to understand what the magazine is about and it would also cause less hassle and chaos for the reader. On the other hand however, there is one negative issue about this designl. This would be the way the text is appearing too close to the logo. This could distort the information from the reader which means that it would be difficult to understand what is trying to be sold.