Looking back at your preliminary task, what do feel you have learnt

in the progression from it to the full production.

Looking back at my preliminary task I know I have made vast improvements. I have improved my skills and techniques on photoshop for instance changing the effect of a picture. Also taking my original image and cutting out the background. For instance the images below. This was all done on photoshop.

More manipulation

School Magazine Front Cover

This is my first attempt of a magazine and as you can see it doesn’t look professional. This magazine doesn’t have a cover line which is suppose to tells me the main cause and intensions of the magazine. This school magazine may be faded into the background because of the distraction of the eyes of my model. This is because it isnt piercing and directly looking at the readers which other magazines seem to do. For my school magazine there wasn’t much planning and research done, which is why it doesn’t look professional. Also my front cover consists of different colour which isn’t complementing. However this magazine shows the skills I am capable of doing. For instance integrated text around a picture, adding images, the use different colours, using different colours.

Music Magazine Front Cover

However comparing my music magazine to my school magazine, my music magazine looks professional. Unlike my school magazine my music magazine has a cover line. The piercing eyes of my model will attract my audience because, the eyes are directly looking at you. My mast head typography that I used was from dafont which is a font website that I grew to learn how to use. Also for my music magazine there was research and a lot of planning. As you can during my project you can see my planning for my music magazine.

This is my contents page for my school magazine. As you can see it looks quite childish due to the different colours used. The reason I tilted the images I have is because, leaving them straight gives the contents page a flat outlook. In the images I have used it shows that I have an idea of how to cut out the background of an image.

My contents page side colour banner is different from other magazines I have seen. This is due to the effect of the diagonal outlook as well as the colour I used. Also the image at the bottom being slanted and edited looks interesting and make you want to know what the image signifies. The effect of the top blurry banner make you want to concentrate on what the picture is about. On the review box you can see a microphone at the top corner, I did this by manipulating my masthead and extracting the microphone and inserting there. This was done on photoshop.

My double page spread was created on indesign and indesign helped me to structure and layout what I wanted my pages to look like. This was done by creating columns. The uses of the columns assisted me to write my interview in an organised straight line. My final production for my double page spread looks professional and well thought about.

This is the transformation I did on indesign to improve my double page spread. I decided to change my double page spread background colour because the grey colour looked dark and wasn’t complementing the coloours I chose.

Final

Overall I believe I did well and better in my music magazine. This is because of the research and planning that I had done. Also being different by changing the effect of my front cover gave my magazine a unique out look. On my contents page I had a mixture of black and white images as well as normal effect images. Photoshop was a crucial software for the final production for my music magazine.

Overall I believe I did well and better in my music magazine. This is because of the research and planning that I had done. Also being different by changing the effect of my front cover gave my magazine a unique out look. On my contents page I had a mixture of black and white images as well as normal effect images. Photoshop was a crucial software for the final production for my music magazine.