Main Task - Double Page Spread.

Main Task - Contents.

Main Task.

Preliminary Task - Contents

Preliminary Task - Cover

Evaluation - Question 7.

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



From doing the preliminary task I have learnt that it takes a lot of time to edit a photograph to make it look professional, and all the small things, like making sure that you can see the text properly, using an appropriate colour scheme to fit in with the photograph and basically does the overall product look professional enough to see it alongside other leading magazines, finally does it complete its purpose to persuade people to buy it. I felt with this task that you were able to make the magazine how you wanted it to look as it was a school magazine, the conventions weren’t so restricting, so I used many colours to make it appear fun and school like.

For the preliminary exercise I found it quite restricting in terms of creativity because it had be to a school magazine, so it's features where more specific than the main task, also time was limited to lesson time. Whereas for the music magazine it was more flexiable you were able to choose a genre and create your own touches to it. For the preliminary exercise I didn't do much research as it didn't seem to be many school magazines out there. Due to all the music magazines I was able to look at front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. I researched all music magazines to start with such as Q, NME, MOJO and many more. Looking at the kind of things I liked and typical conventions, having chosen my genre I looked more closely at magazines such as Vibe and Clash.

I then got two of my friends to pose as music artists and also my sister, I wanted to get a range of different photos so my magazine was interesting. For Matt (Shyne) I took a variety, from all different angles as he was going to be on the front cover and interview – double page spread, so I thought about mise en scene the types of clothes he wore to represent a Hip Hop artist.

For Jo (Lady Red) I wanted a photograph that was a bit more fun different from the average shot so I took photos doing different poses with her hands, inspired by lady Gaga in her music videos. Eventually decided to have the one of her sitting down looking quite moody. For my sister I wanted to take close up shots of her face looking cocky, she is wearing a black coat with a oversized collar which I thought looked cool with a stripy scarf. With Photoshop I experimented more with the photographs, putting them up against different backgrounds changing the contrast making the skin tone a bit more bright to give that air brush magazine effect.

Evaluation - Question 6.

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


I have learnt from the technologies that there is so much you can do to change a photograph, I have become familiar with the software Photoshop while proceeding with the construction of my magazine. I found certain elements to Photoshop quite difficult at the start, such as using the lasso tool can be quite tricky, you have to be patient.