AQA GCSE Media Studies Student Book

262 Creating graphics Your product will need graphics, such as a masthead or a company logo. One of your first considerations for any graphics is colour. You may be able to plan a colour palette for your product before your photoshoot. Saga magazine, however, usually uses a limited colour palette on its front cover, based on an element within the main cover image. Can you see how the background and font colours on these covers relate to an aspect within the photograph of the cover star? Some image-editing programs allow you to use a colour picker to choose a colour from the image that you can then use to fill the background or to colour the fonts. Another consideration is the style of font you should use within the logo or masthead. This should suggest something about the character of the product itself. You might also use graphic features – boxes, circles, borders and so on – to break-up your page or to highlight specific information. You should be guiding the audience to read your product in the way you want them to. Signpost clearly where the information begins and ends and where they can find the most important elements. If you are adding captions to a photograph, for example, you will need to separate these visually from any other copy. You can use straplines and skylines , which create a coloured strip across a page, to highlight specific text. You can use borders and/or coloured boxes to outline an information box, separating it from the main text or image. HEALTH | MONEY | TRAVEL | HOME MARCH 2018 £4 SAGA.CO.UK/MAGAZINE MONTHLY Funnyfibs our parents told us Theywindyouup, yourmumanddad PLUS | AlanTitchmarsh | AldoZilli | PaulLewis | BillBailey | JoBrand | DrMarkPorter Alison Steadman Sitcoms,secondchances,savingtheplanet –andspiders Local heroes Amazingtales ofcommunity inspiration Beatstress- thesimpleway Clevertipsfor puttingthespring back inyourstep HOWTO: Avoidkidney problems Goodnewsabout reducingthe risk Join Possibilities Save£££s withgreatoffers andexclusive events 20 ofmoneyand healthadvice pages to declutter yourhome Goodbyestuff, hellostylishspace 7 steps The wonderful world of What does each of these fonts connote? Talk about it Skyline A line of text, with or without a coloured strip background, that runs across the top edge of a magazine page, poster or other print product. It contains important information to appeal to the audience. Key term HEALTH | MONEY | TRAVEL | HOME OCTOBER 2017 £4 SAGA.CO.UK/MAGAZINE MONTHLY 10 PEARLS OF WISDOM One-liners from thegrandkids Email scam masterclass Howtospot them –andwhat todo Clare Balding More thanmeets the eye… ‘I’ve got sixTVremote controls!’ Technology isgoing backwards,howls JeremyVine International pet rescue Meet theheroes savinganimals from crueltyoverseas PLUS BillBailey onthe joyof laughter RickWakeman onthe joyofgrumpiness Saga magazine Laying out the pages Once you have all the elements of your product, you will need to lay them out. This will be much easier if you have a sketched plan of the pages, and you have all your image and text files saved to the same folder, in the most accessible file formats. Some image-processing software will automatically save your images in a format that is specific to that program, such as PSD files in Photoshop. You might need to save these as JPEGs, GIFs or PNGs to use them in the software you are using for layout. We will look at the layout conventions of different print formats in the next sections of this chapter. AQA GCSE Media Studies