Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page Analysis

Preliminary Task-Evaluation

The preliminary task that we did was we had to make our own front cover and contests page for the Armthorpe Academy I approached this task by choosing one of the templates that I had done prior to the task and then trying to follow the template as closely as possible. So the first thing I did was I put all of the basic pieces onto the contents page and then I started adding all of the pictures and text to it. The colours that I used in it were ones that I felt were reprehensive of the Armthorpe School and would usually be associated with it this would be colours such as blue.

Before we did our task we did a substantial amount of research this included things like we looked at the key concepts of a magazine cover and when we did this we were able to apply the knowledge of that into our preliminary task these concepts included things like there was often a headline so I tried to include this into my front cover also another recurring theme in magazine covers was there was often one dominant picture on the front cover so I also included this into my work as well. We also looked at contents pages as we had to create one of these for our preliminary task and we looked at how these usually would look and when we found these we also used some of the things which seemed to show up regularly on them and we used them in our own.

Some of the skills that I have learnt while using Photoshop to create our magazine cover and contents page is I have been able to understand how layers work within Photoshop I have also learnt how to be able to make something to a reasonable level on Photoshop. What influenced my design is I looked at magazine designs and the conventions that were in that I put into my own work I also wanted for it to appeal to a certain target audience so I designed my front cover and contents page with this in mind.

Some of the things that I changed with my design as I progressed through my design is I changed some of the original template designs slightly as I thought this would make it look better this included things like moving some of the pictures around so I was able to put something else there which I thought would have been able to improve the overall look of it. Some other things that I also changed is I changed the design of the contents page a bit as I thought I could have also improved the overall design by doing this as well. Another thing which I also changed is I made some of the title font bigger this was because I wanted these to stand out among any other words on the page as these would be important for the audience to look at. Also when I put one of the pictures onto the page I also had to move this around and resize it in order for it to be able to actually fit on the page.