In my preliminary task, I created a front cover and contents page for a college magazine, as seen on the left hand side. For our final coursework we had to create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine, as partly seen on the right. I added all of the prelim creation's elements on Photoshop to raise my own awareness of the software. I added only text on top of a picture at the start but then when we began work on our final task, I learnt more about Photoshop and I added more elements, such as boxes, text and extra images. In both magazine front covers I used a male model. The second time around however, I made sure that the model was making eye contact with the camera to create more of a connection with the audience! In the preliminary I left the image plain with the original back ground but in the final task, I used the lasso tool to separate the model from the background and then create my own colour to match my colour scheme! I learnt many new techniques on Photoshop such as how to use the lasso tool, during our time spent on coursework.
From looking at my contents page from the prelim task, you can see that it is very minimal compared to what is included within the final outcome of my music magazine contents page. After taking a look at the prelim contents page, I decided I did not like having a coloured background so I decided my music magazine contents would better suit a white background! I cam to the conclusion that I needed to use more pictures on my contents page that were of models, that I had taken and that were of more relevance to articles contained in the magazine.
I studied many different contents pages from different magazines and thought the best way to organize all information present would be to place it all in columns. I learnt, on Photoshop, how to put columns in to my work and adjust them to the appropriate colours etc with ease. Once I had figured that part out, all I needed to do was add page numbers then create small ideas of what Ever Ready, as a pop magazine, would include!
