Magazine Research

My First task! I have to complete a Preliminary task in order to pass my overall coursework task. This is to complete and produce a school magazine with a contents page. I will research school magazines, and find an area which I would like to look into. I will update and show all of my developments as I go along! 

In this section I will be presenting a selection a random magazine covers which I have found on the internet.

They are all based around nursery school magazine images.

The first front cover I found is from a magazine called 'kids LA' I chose to use this image because it is colourful and I feel represents children well, as when people think of children they are reminded of a fun environment with lots of colours.

The child on the cover of this magazine looks palyful, innocent and cute. The way she is positioned shows a certain vunerability, as she is holding her knees to her chin. The text of the front cover also fits well around the image and all of the text is clear.

The second image I found was also of a young girl, she is also centered in the middle of the image and there is a certain variety of colours. This image is not a magazine cover although it does represent young children in a playful environment. The child in this image is the main object and she also looks innocent and playful much like my first image. Although, this image is in an educational environment and I would like my magazine to convey a playful image, such as a child playing outside and not inside a building.

I will now go on to research and find more pictures of childrens magazine covers, for nursery schools etc. This will include lighting and shadows, which will help me to identify where to position my model when taking photographs.

Image Research:

The next  images I research will be defined around the idea of a 'playful child' showing emotions and character. As I would eventually like my photographs to show this.

These images I have found show four different emotions. I think that being able to display personaltiy, character and emotion in a photograph is important and would aim to have my model for the magazine cover to do this. The emotion I would like to display for the nursery magazine would be 'playful' and 'energetic' and for the veiwer/reader to get a sense of a fun atmosphere, which would be useful if the magazine was in a store as it would be eye catching and readers would be interested in the nursery itself and not just the image on the cover of the magazine.

I have come to the conclusion that I would like my magazine cover to be energetic and colourful, representing the child's personality in the photograph. I will now go on to take photographs for my own magazine cover.