G321 Main Task

To design and create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine.

Evaluation

I have decided to use Prezi as a way to address the evaluation for my preliminary task.

Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

Below is my final, completed, front cover and contents page for my Trinity School magazine. Over time I have done extensive research and worked from an original draft/plan, editing, arranging, deleting and changing items and features to make my magazine look as professional and life-like as possible.

Drafts

Drafts

Below are my three main drafts for my magazine. You can see from the order that they are placed in that over time I have worked hard to improve on my simplistic original idea. Over time things have been added, removed and adjusted to make my magazine look as good as possible, an example of this is the bottom arched title on the first draft, after trying it out on Indesign I realised that it would not be possible as it left too much empty space, therefore I took this into consideration for the second draft, rearranging the title to a less complicated way. All features from my first draft have remained in all three but they have just been slightly manipulated or placed differently, also the main photograph has been changed to a more effective one. The bottom draft is my final one and is also the one that lead to my final magazine front cover and contents page.

Photographs

Selecting My Photographs

Here is a screen shot of some of my photographs. When I went out around the school sites to pre-arranged places, I took a lot more than I actually needed. The purpose of this was so that I could go through them later on and delete any blurt/un-needed ones and just take away the good ones that could be applied to my magazine, I originally had around 140-150 photographs but after editing and deleting I got them down to roughly 34.