Monday, 28 November 2011

This is showing my preliminary task which we had to create at the beginning of term and we had to create a school magazine front cover and contents page. I based the front cover on the GCSE results 2011 and the contents page i based it on a variety of topics (GCSE results, prom, new years 7's and BSF). This links in with the music magazine by making me aware of the software i used which is Microsoft Publisher and how magazines are layed out. I think that my front cover looks more like a magazine as the way it is layed out on the page but my contents page isn't well designed because i didn't know how to design a contents page. Looking back at this task i can think of many ways to improve the contents page; i wouldn't of made the two boxes at the bottom and i definitely wouldn't of couloured those two boxes green and red and i would also say that the contents page looks like it's aimed at children in a primary school, i think it doesn't look professional. On my front cover of my preliminary task i would of changed the red barcode to black because you don't see red barcodes anywhere. I discovered when making a school magazine it is very similar to a music magazine. But then when I was making the school magazine it was difficult that everything had to be exact. The impact of this it made me think of how I was going to design my front cover of my music magazine, it especially made me think of how I was going to design my contents page.