Contents Page:
For my preliminary coursework I had to design and produce a front cover and contents page for a school magazine.
To begin I had to decide what my magazine would be called. This was relatively easy as I knew I wanted to go for a simple heading and quickly settled for ‘Goffs Weekly’. After this I had to think up at least 8 story headings that I would list on the contents page; some of which would be included on my front page. After I had an idea of what my front page and contents page was going to include I had to draw up 2 designs for each page. This went well and I was pleased with my designs and just hoped that I would be able to create something similar when it came to producing the pages on the computer.
For my 2 pages I was going to need to take several photographs that related to the story headings, as well as a medium close-up of a student to be the main feature on my front page. I really enjoyed this part of the task and loved being imaginative and thinking of different ways to represent the story behind each heading. I did however have some issues with the quality of some of my photographs, particularly the medium close-up for the front page. For this photo I used my phone camera which resulted in the quality of the picture not being as clear as it probably should have been. I learnt from this and decided for the rest of the photo’s to use a digital camera. However, I did still use the medium close-up that was taken with my phone camera as this was my favourite and definitely the most suitable, but in future tasks I will know to use a higher quality camera for all photographs.
Following this it was time to start producing the finished pages. To do this I was going to use photoshop, a software that I had no experience using. Firstly I needed to cut out the medium close-up for my front page using the magnetic lasso tool. This was extremely difficult and really tested my patience. After several attempts I finally managed to cut around the picture successfully. I copied and pasted the picture on to my front page and began resizing the image until I was happy with its position. I then chose a font for the title and carried on resizing photos for the front page, trying to follow my design where possible. I chose to use bright colours for much of the font so that it would stand out against the blue background. My front page was nearly complete but before I was happy with it I experimented with the different tools on the software, hoping to improve it further.
Finally I made a start on my contents page, which was much simpler. I tried to use similar colours to the front page as I wanted both pages to have a similar theme. I used bold font for the title ‘contents’ as I wanted it to stand out clearly. I also included the school logo as I had on my front page to link the 2 pages. The pictures on this page related to the story headings listed and I tried to choose carefully so that I had a variety. One thing that I found difficult when doing this page was positioning the numbers over the black boxes. I think that this was mainly due to the fact that the software was completely new to me.
I was pleased with both of my pages, particularly the contents as it looks very similar to my original designs. It also looks slightly more professional than the front page. The front page to me looks quite amateur, probably because I’m not very advanced at using the software. Hopefully this will improve with practice and experience, and in the future tasks should be easier to complete and look more professional.
To begin I had to decide what my magazine would be called. This was relatively easy as I knew I wanted to go for a simple heading and quickly settled for ‘Goffs Weekly’. After this I had to think up at least 8 story headings that I would list on the contents page; some of which would be included on my front page. After I had an idea of what my front page and contents page was going to include I had to draw up 2 designs for each page. This went well and I was pleased with my designs and just hoped that I would be able to create something similar when it came to producing the pages on the computer.
For my 2 pages I was going to need to take several photographs that related to the story headings, as well as a medium close-up of a student to be the main feature on my front page. I really enjoyed this part of the task and loved being imaginative and thinking of different ways to represent the story behind each heading. I did however have some issues with the quality of some of my photographs, particularly the medium close-up for the front page. For this photo I used my phone camera which resulted in the quality of the picture not being as clear as it probably should have been. I learnt from this and decided for the rest of the photo’s to use a digital camera. However, I did still use the medium close-up that was taken with my phone camera as this was my favourite and definitely the most suitable, but in future tasks I will know to use a higher quality camera for all photographs.
Following this it was time to start producing the finished pages. To do this I was going to use photoshop, a software that I had no experience using. Firstly I needed to cut out the medium close-up for my front page using the magnetic lasso tool. This was extremely difficult and really tested my patience. After several attempts I finally managed to cut around the picture successfully. I copied and pasted the picture on to my front page and began resizing the image until I was happy with its position. I then chose a font for the title and carried on resizing photos for the front page, trying to follow my design where possible. I chose to use bright colours for much of the font so that it would stand out against the blue background. My front page was nearly complete but before I was happy with it I experimented with the different tools on the software, hoping to improve it further.
Finally I made a start on my contents page, which was much simpler. I tried to use similar colours to the front page as I wanted both pages to have a similar theme. I used bold font for the title ‘contents’ as I wanted it to stand out clearly. I also included the school logo as I had on my front page to link the 2 pages. The pictures on this page related to the story headings listed and I tried to choose carefully so that I had a variety. One thing that I found difficult when doing this page was positioning the numbers over the black boxes. I think that this was mainly due to the fact that the software was completely new to me.
I was pleased with both of my pages, particularly the contents as it looks very similar to my original designs. It also looks slightly more professional than the front page. The front page to me looks quite amateur, probably because I’m not very advanced at using the software. Hopefully this will improve with practice and experience, and in the future tasks should be easier to complete and look more professional.
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