Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Prelim Contents Page

Prelim Cover

This is the cover for my prelim task

Question 7

I feel as though I have certainly learnt a lot since my preliminary tasks, the images below show my preliminary front cover compared to my music magazine front cover.

  

There is a clear difference between these two sets  of work, firstly, with my school magazine I didn't have another magazine to model from and adapt to, this is a factor in it not looking as professional as my second task.

The front cover of my music magazine is also filled with more text and also the names of popular bands attempt to attract the audience, where as i couldn't do with my prelim. and so I want to replicate this to make my magazine as professional as possible.

You can see from my front cover pictures that I have thought about the positioning and costume for my actor, in my music magazine. I have tried to make the picture appeal to the audience so I have included an instrument to indicate the actor is a musician. 

Question 6

I have learned a lot during the process of creating my music magazine such as how to use photoshop effectively to produce a professional magazine. I have learned how to use the majority of tools to develop a magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. These tools allowed me to do a variety of different thinks to produce my magazine whether it was adding text, creating a background, editing an image or merging two images together and much more.

 I also have learned how to use canon cameras efficiently and effectively including how to use rule of thirds to produce an image suitable for a magazine front cover, magazine contents and magazine DPS. This has allowed me to produce some high quality professional images that suit the intended purpose. Rule of thirds has helped me to produce images that are positioned accurately and effectively. 

 Another technology that I have used that has helped the process of creating my music magazine was the apple mac computers as they have aloud me to upload the photos I have produced and also use photoshop to edit images also to use the tools to build my magazine they have also aloud me to update my blog to show the process of creating my magazine and also to research music magazines to see what content they should consist of and which conventions they should follow.

Overall I think I have learned a lot since creating my prelim magazine that has aloud me to produce a magazine front cover, contents page and DPS spread to a good standard I have used a variety of different technologies during this process to aid my work but without the different technologies I wouldn't of achieved a successful magazine.