Preliminary task front page
Preliminary task content page
Here what you see is my preliminary task, considering this task
my skills using Photoshop has improved dramatically in many aspects. This was beneficial to me as I learnt even more from it and made things even better for example the images and text. Comparing my preliminary task and my final magazine cover you can see a huge difference, this is because of the genre they have been created for. The preliminary task is a school magazine and the other is a teen pop music magazine. In my preliminary task the pictures were all taken from a good professional camera to create that high class effect and I kept that the same for my main magazine pictures as well by using high standard equipments. The colours that I have used in my preliminary task go very well in my opinion as they are very subtle and look rich in colour, as the colours are all picked out to bring out the picture and the text. The font is also all the same instead of using different sizes of font that is why I think the school magazine has turned out to look more professional.
Creating the preliminary task I have learnt that every genre has its own style this includes images, fonts and colours as for the school magazine I have used colours, images and fonts to make it look professional but for my own teen pop music magazine I have used completely different things. The best possible way of doing this was to research to enable the best possible outcome of my magazine. I looked at magazines such as 'Top of the Pops' and 'I heart pop' , due to this research i was able to find my successful elements needed to make a teen pop magazine. From the research I found my main magazine 'Top of the Pop' to be targeted at 9 - 15 year olds and this is why I chose to keep the same age group audience for my magazine. After the age group had been decided I started researching about what kinds of stars were most popular amongst the young teens, what they liked and what they preferred, This was all done by a form of questionnaire. (questionnaire page 3) This was an important part of the research as it would let me decide what I should add in my front cover to attract my audience.
Final front cover Final content page
This was the final out come of my magazine. From making this teen pop magazine I have learned and developed my skills of using the right things for different genre of magazines from professional looking magazine to a teen pop. Using the help of Photoshop which I have taken complete advantage of by using it for its best tools and coming out with what looks like a real pop magazine. My knowledge in the music magazine industry has also increased by looking at various magazines and analyzing its covers and making consumption of why an image is placed there or why something is written. From making my own magazine i can confidently say that next time it would be even better and from making this magazine I have learned and acknowledged the mistakes i have made. If i could change anything I would change the content page as it looks a bit too crowded and for my front cover I would add more interesting colours that would reach out to my audience more but as for my double page spread i would keep it just as it is. Acknowledging my trials and errors I have learned whats good and whats not and also learned skills of using Photoshop High tech cameras and many other technological products to get the best results possible.
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