Preliminary task

Preliminary task

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  In preparation formy music magazine task to test my skills and make sure I was comfortable and confident in my use of Photoshop I made a practice or preliminary task of a school magazine based around my school. The masthead and idea was all original however it kept with the schools colour scheme and theme as well as stories which I attempted to give a sense of realism with current events around the school.
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  When designing the preliminarytask the look was most important I wanted to try and make something that looked professional while keeping with the theme of school I chose the purple background in keeping with the school’s theme colours and the masthead “The Desk” as it is a key figure for any student in a school; as student magazine straight off the desk
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  Keeping with theschool theme I then found and cropped a image of the school logo to place on the cover of the magazine
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  After analysing othermagazines and finding the key features and concepts they include the puff was placed under masthead as it is a student magazine it had to covey a theme of being written by the students; “straight off the desk”
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  Next came thecover lines. The content had to be interesting yet realistic, exaggerated story lines would not convey the style of a student magazine. New additions to the school and student thoughts seemed most relevant yet still intriguing.
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  First I addedthe additional image at it was easier to place directly under its additional cover line. There was not space for many more as well as too many may have made it looked cluttered. From how the page had begun to shape I had enough space to add the main image and through the layout everything else would form around on the page would form around the image.
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  After further analysis Further more the person and having taken a of my image had to be picture for my front change so that it was cover my idea had taking into account change to a whole both genders. The use image as the of a boy worked better background and main with the layout but image however the made the magazine requirements meant male dominant. that I was only limited to one image. Even though it cannot fully be seen I played around with some of the editing techniques on the image adding a glow and blurring and painting over it. This was to try out many techniques in the aim of achieving a polished finished look.
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  The creation ofthe contents page I found easier to do as apposed to the front page as it based on additional cover lines the only problem I found is when designing a contents page is fitting it with the theme of the magazine and front cover while making a clear and structured layout which I will remember and improve on for my music magazine .
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  To start Iset the layout of the contents still keeping with the same them colours.
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  I added alogo to make it clear that both these were associated. My main aim as stated before was to keep with the theme of the school colours.
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  This was thelast bit to add to make the layout of the contents. By placing the word in a shape it now separated the page to include
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  As it wasa student The silhouette magazine I of the students wanted the enforce the image but idea of a knew that the student colour of an magazine as actual image from it you can would have see what looks cluttered the to be a group page so I used of student on a silhouette top. They are instead. backing and the innovators behind this magazine
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  However the image wastoo small and I had to duplicate and flip it in order to fill the space. At first I was weary at the idea but the increase in the number of students shows unity, which helps in the conveying the theme of a student based magazine.
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  The cover lineswere easy to add. They have a direct link to the addition and main sell lines on the front cover. The content was important as this made it a school magazine specifically.
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  Just as important pagenumbers. Even though it was just as front cover and contents page being created it still had to look authentic and realistic.
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  Upon adding an imagethis was the final result. There was a lack in images on both my It is also front cover and important to contents page note that so I because of my remembered to layout from the take that into beginning in account for my opinion the future image added reference. looked squashed and out of place slightly. This was another error to take into account when designing my music magazine