PRELIM:
It is clear to see when comparing my prelim and final product that i have more of an understanding towards both software and programmes that i have used throughout the production. both of my front covers were designed on photoshop and it is apparent that i didnt have many skills at first as the image that is on my prelim cover has had no touch ups or anything done to it so it shows that my skills on this programme were minimal. when it came to producing my final product (main task) my skills had developed and this is clear to see in my products as i have edited my image, imported images from the internet, rotated text and used variations of fonts that have been chosen depending on my magazine genre.
my photography skills are also something else that has improved as my prelim image is just of my model standing straight on which looks very boring, however i did a bit of research and this is the pose that tends to be used by many other magazines for the front cover as it is advised this way. the background colour on my prelim cover was black and initially thought that this would be the best colour however when looking back at it i think that it would of been best to be white as the cover looks too dull and doesnt show off all of my skills. i knew that when i was to complete my main tasks cover that my photography needed to be amazing as my skills needed to be demonstrated, i knew that i wanted a white background, so i needed to make sure that the lighting was appropriate i learnt what a three point lighting set up was which was done in the studio. i also looked in to the styles of photography that i could produce in my product and this helped me create a wide variety.
the page layout on both of my covers is fairly similar as the image is straight on in the middle and the eyeline is in a similar area and my reasons for this are that i wanted my readers to be able to relate to them and i found that the best way to do this would be through costume and eyeline as it is something that needed to be picked up upon. in my prelim cover the sell lines are all over the place and were all the same colour and the same standard font, i changed this when i went onto design my main task and my reasons were that it looked too basic before and too immature. i decided that i would change the page layout as i had researched into popular page layouts to see which ones work well in the industry . the reasons for my research was that i was unsure of an idea for myself so thought that the bet way would be look but not to copy, i took influence mainly from Q magazine. as you can tell from my prelim task the colours do not really go together very well so this was something that i picked up on as i wanted my colours to be unusual colours as i wanted my readers to think that my magazine was professional and not child like.
another aspect that i took into consideration was my choice of models, i chose them carefully this time as i knew that i had plenty of time to style them to how i initially planned, i took into consideration the music genre that i was hoping to portray when styling my models as the clothing was something that needed to be worked on as in my prelim i didnt tell my model what i wanted her to wear as i like her individual style where as i wanted to portray a character in my main task. when i chose the genre of magazine i was to produce i then thought about the context that would be included in my magazine as it had to link in. the difference between the context of my prelim and my main task is that the prelim consisted on context that was based around a college and the main task is for a music magazine so immediately the context is going to be different as it is context dependant.
The contents pages that i designed for both were fairly different as it is apparent that my skills have increased when looking back at my prelim page.
I tried to keep the alignment the same on both my prelim and main task but knew that it needed to be developed for it to look more professional and less immature. For my main task i wanted to keep to a three column set up as i realised that this would make it look more professional and it was a common theme that is used in professional magazine and it 3was my initial idea to have this included this shows that my knowledge has increased as in my prelim i just wanted to keep it simple and by looking at it you can tell that i had no idea what i wanted my product to look like. The allignment of my text in the prelim product are all in line but there is too much spacing between the page titles, the images are also in line with each other byt they look too big for the page as the text should be the most important part of this page. When it came to doing my main task i used rulers around the sides of the page so i coudld see whether or not i was in the line so that none of my text could be cut off. I also knew that i wanted my page to be full of information that was valid to my music genre. When looking back at my prelim contents page it is apparent that there is a lot of white space which needed to be filled, in the process of creating my final product in the main task i was told to keep adding information as i didnt want any blank space as it wouldnt look professional. My images are different in my main task as i have managed to edit them and crop them without taking away the focus of the image, at the start of my production i wouldnt of been able to do this but after going through the tutorials of inDeisgn i was finally able to do this.
