- Having a preliminary task helped me get started with the basic tools on Photoshop such as cropping, scaling and rotating an image, selecting texts and different backgrounds and also uploading images onto the page and the use of layers.
- For my main task my audience are far more specified being part of a sub-culture, than the preliminary task, which meant that I had to research about real magazines that were similar to help me. This included: what type of fashion, food/drink, technology, and hobbies they like. To help me remember the audience profile of my target audience I made a moodboard full of images that related to their likes.
- The design of my magazine had to fit the pyschographic group to give it it's own identity. However, for my preliminary task I had a broader audience because I was targeting all types of teenagers attending a college. Because of this I was able to make the design of my magazine attractable for everybody, maybe even staff.
- For my college magazine the contents in it were mainly about exams, careers, events, gossip and some fashion. However the main task was dominately about music and lifestyle.
- Although I wasn't confident using Photoshop doing the prelimiary task, doing a photography course meant that I was using it more frequently and gradually getting better at using layers and different tools. I found trying to get the same colour/fill continuously throughout different pages after changing to a different colour was difficult. But after experimenting with different tools I finally understood how to do it. This meant that I could have exactly the same colour to keep the identity of the magazine the same.
- Another skill that I picked up on was using a drop shadow, I used this on my masthead for my college magazine and most of the text on my main task. I found that the drop shadow made the magazine look more professional and it made the text stand out from the background.
- Using layers to make the magazine was a crucial aspect of it coming together. Having different layers meant that you could edit anything on its own. I had to use layers on both tasks and they allowed me to use pretty much any tool to alter unwanted parts.
- Another tool that I used quite frequently was the cropping tool, with this tool, I could crop any image to a desired size. The cropping tool was very handy when I wanted to delete parts of an image and I relied on it rather a lot.
- I used text alignment rather a lot in both magazines. I done this so that the text was not all in a straight line, and in a row. Text alignment allows you to be more creative with the text and wrapping the text also helps it look more interesting and fun.<>
- To make my main task magazine look more professional, I thought it was important that I payed attention to the detail and all the conventions of a real magazine to boost its retail ability. This meant that I had to include a barcode, date and price, a website, features/regulars, and my writtens skills.
- Because my college magazine wasn't going in shops to buy, I could make the magazine as creative and different as I liked. I wanted to the magazine to look like an actual student had done it because I think that it would appeal to them a lot more and they would want to know who done it. I did not use my journalism skills on the preliminary task because a double page spread was not required, but the headlines and contents page can be apart of it.
Overall, making the college magazine was a huge help and a great starting point of making a magazine. I did not consistently use the generic conventions of mainstream magazines on my preliminary task, which therefore I had to learn about when doing my main task. I think that the constructing part of the magazines was not so hard, but thinking of the design, layout, colours, content and subject matter was the hardest parts of task. I think from my college magazine that my music magazine is a huge improvement and looks similar to a real life magazine.
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