Final Front Cover.

Final Contents Page.

Final Double Page Spread.

Prelim Contents Page.

Prelim Front Cover.

Evaluation 7.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

My preliminary task was to be based on general conventions of magazines. When i begun to create this magazine cover i didn't know any sort of skills or techniques at all which is able to tell as the cover i created for my school magazine is plain, simple, boring and doesn't look appealing. There is no excitement as the colours are just plain black and white. The picture doesn't show any emotion and if someone was just to be given the magazine, they wouldn't be able to tell what the magazine is based to unless they read the text on the front cover.




As you can see straight away, there is a huge contrast between these two magazine covers. My music magazine cover is bright, colourful and airy. It looks a lot more appealing and attractive, my main image also shows a lot more than the image on the first magazine. The image shows a clear message that it is a pop magazine and that the girl band featuring in it are strong , independent and have a strong attitude. I made the front cover more exciting than the front cover page shown above by adding more information on what the magazine contained inside such as, other bands and artists. I also added different colours to my page such as pale pin, pale blue and pale purple. I made my masthead look more like one on a real magazine, i also used subheadings, barcode, website link with a Facebook and Twitter logo. I improved this step by step whilst getting inspiration from style models.

Evaluation 6.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the process of creating my magazine i was able to use a lot of different technology, i knew the basics of technology but i was able to learn more skills to a bigger advantage to be able to complete the tasks that were needed to be completed. I completed majority of the tasks on an Apple Mac computer as photoshop was available to use to edit my photos to fit my front cover, contents page and double page spread.

To take all my photos during my photo shoot i used a Canon camera. Although i thought the camera was going to be simple and easy to use, i did have to learn certain things to complete the photo shoot successfully. Such as; choosing the right setting, getting the correct lighting, angles and most importantly, how to get the best images.

             Here i am showing through a screenshot the work that i have produced through photoshop. Before i started the course, i didn't know how to use photoshop or how to edit any pictures to a high standard. Whilst creating my magazine i haven't only learnt how to use simple techniques on photoshop, i have learnt how to edit pictures, add text, using blending options, contrast of pictures, adding several pictures onto the same page and how to add several layers to make it easier to edit my work throughout my time to change things and correct. I have learnt quicker techniques and different ways to present my work in an advanced way.