For our preliminary task we had to create a school magazine this included the front page and contents. why researching i had found out who was the ideal age to base the magazine on. Research shows that sixth form would be the best age group to base the magazine on although there was still alot of for positive response from the higher years in secondary school. This is why i based my magazine on 13-18 year old students.
As i was new to photoshop this was just an experiment before our final hand in. i had researched other school magazines before and posted one on my blog. This is how both parts of my preliminary task went.
The original idea was to have an image of the school and students around but due to the weather a good image was harder to come by. Looking at the main image on the front page (of the school) you can see the reflection in the doors. Also advice that i have been given by my tutor was that closed doors aren't as welcoming as open doors. I had been playing around with the layers and cutting images and re locating them on the main document. Another issue that i had pointed out was that the banner (the black on the top of the document) didn't match both pages one was bigger than the other. Also the different fonts was making the preliminary task very unprofessional.
The strengths that i had brought out of this task was creating/re-arranging layers, cutting images, adjusting colour/shadows/lighting and also learning from the mistakes made in this assignment. I made sure that both banners where matching and the same size, fonts were similar when needed and images/models where planned before taking or looked at more carefully to make sure they are usable.
The contents page was very simple and when looking back after researching the music magazine i believe that it was effective for a school magazine whereas a music magazine this wouldn't fit. Changes to make would be more colour and images this is where i had to do more research for the contents page on my music magazine.
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