Future tasks.

2011-11-20T14:31:00.000-08:00

I thought it would be a good idea to plan out the work i am about to embark upon. This provide me with a sense of guidance and aid me in maintaining focus throughout this project. I have quickly outlined the tasks one will complete before beginning my final print task. The plan is provided below.

Forecasting future planning & research.

Research:

· • Annotate existing...

- Front covers – what is good/bad about it.

- Contents page – what is good/bad about it.

- Double page spreads – what is good/bad about it.

· • Undertake some questionnaires to find out what interests and selling points of people who buy music magazines.

· • Analyse some examples of music journalism to see what type of language and vocabulary used.

· • Look at current examples of logos, magazine names, layout and house styles to get an idea of the conventions and what to include in mine.

Planning:

• Keep a record of regular screenshots to show as development.

• Plan then develop initial ideas of a logo, magazine names, and layout and house styles.

Preliminary Task...

2011-11-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

Evaluation

Above is my preliminary task, of which was to create a school magazines front cover and contents page. I created my magazine documents to be appealing to a parental audience as opposed to the students of the school. By designing my front cover and contents page to an older more sophisticated target audience I had to make them more professional and formal for the pages to be suitable for it purpose.

I made the two pages using Adobe Photoshop CS5. This software package was fairly easy it use and was effective at the job. I was easily able to manipulate the images I needed to as well as insert text, shape and add effects such as shadows and blurs. It was a selection of those factors that appealed my to use Photoshop over another software package that may appear to be more suitable E.g. Microsoft Publisher 2010, which didn’t have the extensive availability to the plethora of graphic techniques I used.

Some parts of this project took quite a lot of time because of the lack of planning I had undertaken, which in fact was none. I think I I had taken more time to plan the layout and some of the language techniques that I should have used then I would have been able to complete the project more quickly and potentially to a higher standard. This would probably also be the case if I was to of done some additional research some similar magazines with for best results the same audience, this would of provided me with some extra inspiration. Even with the absence of planning and much research I feel that I created a front and contents page that are of a very high standard.

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Future tasks.

Preliminary Task...