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Preliminary exercise:
Produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. You also must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page, using a DTP program.

 

Main text:

The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

 

At the beginning of the AS college year, we had to create a preliminary on two media formats; a magazine front cover with a content page for a school/college and a short film of an interview. As my actual practical coursework is going to be a music magazine, I have put my own preliminary at the right hand side. When I first started to make this, I didn't have much experience on Photoshop and I didn't really know how the program works which is why my preliminary doesn't look so good. I had a few technological issues when adding text and the images as some of them didn't add correctly which therefore led to blank areas. There was supposed to be a picture on the front cover as its background, yet I had an issue with where to save the image. As the image didn't work as it was meant to, it looks as if I only added text onto the front cover. This was the second copy as the fire one was the one