from my prelim to now

Since my preliminary task I have actually learnt a lot things such as how to use Photoshop, how to layout a magazine properly, how to take good focused pictures and many others. I am happy with the fact that I have come such a long way since my previous task but still feel as if there is a lot more I can still learn in terms of media. I also feel as if the end product of my magazine cover beats my preliminary front cover hands down and that in terms of codes and conventions it has improved drastically. The main thing where I feel I have progressed on since the preliminary task was my time keeping, as with my preliminary task I didn’t finish it where as this task we had more to do in the similar times but I still was able to do it to the best of my ability. Overall you can see in my work where I have improved since the preliminary task and think that with a bit more practise there isn’t any reason why I can’t still expand my media skills, and go even further then the level I am at now.

Double page spread

My double page spread was one of my strongest parts of my magazine in my opinion. The reason I say this is because it matched all the codes and conventions of a grime magazine and the layout was exactly as I wanted it. Out of the three parts of my magazine I actually found this part the easiest as I already knew the kind of look I was going for so I didn’t really need to do before hand research for it. During this process there was one problem I came across and this was the quantity of text I had to include. The reason this was an issue was because I didn’t judge how much text I would actually need so I ended up not having enough, then I had to make up most of it at the end. If I was to this double page spread again I would make sure I include more text and also maybe add one more picture to it.

front cover

The first thing I done in this task was take pictures I needed for my magazine. As it was a grime magazine I had to get specific pictures that suited the genre. To accomplish this I made my artist wear dark colours and street clothing which is highly linked to the grime genre. After my artist had the appropriate attire I got a good quality camera and started taking pictures of my artist against a plain white wall as this would be easiest to cut out using Photoshop.  After I got the significant amount of photos I needed for my front cover of my magazine I started going through them and selected the best ones. Once this was done I started working around with fonts. After I found a suitable font I could use on my front cover I then started to include other text and found that my magazine was coming along well as there was an obvious cohesion with the color scheme and the style of font. This was a good sign as it suggested that I was meeting the right codes and conventions of other grime magazines. As soon as all this was complete I then had to use one of the images I had taken with my camera and fit it in with my text. During this process there were a lot of problems as I had to choose from about 5 possible other images, eventually with help from a member of staff and other pupils in my class we all came to an agreement what image to use and this was the outcome.