PRELIMINARY evaluation

Evaluation


For this task we were asked to design and create a front cover and contents page using Photoshop and Quark Xpress for a school magazine. All our images had to be original and taken ourselves, however i found this a challenge as my idea was to have a Halloween themed magazine. Therefore i had planned to capture images to connote Halloween. However because at the time we were taking the images for our magazine it was not yet Halloween i could not find much to help, so i decided to ask a friend to dress up as a Witch so i could use the picture as my central image on my front cover. I also made sure that my picture followed the central mode of address. Also as with all magazines, mine followed alot of the regular codes and conventions, for example the Masthead was in a unique font and was bold and very easily noticed by the reader, i also used coverlines. And numerous smaller images throughout the page.
Moreover i used Photoshop to create my Front cover, i found this rather easy as we have used Photoshop to create a magazine before. So i already had the hang of it. However i did not find this when we were asked to use Quark Xpress to create our contents page. This was because i struggled abit at the beginning of creating the contents page, because i was not used to using the computer program, however after finding my barings with it, i found it just as easy as Photoshop.
Additionally before we started the task and throughout the task we looked at other real media products, such as magazines of different genres and looked at and noted down the codes and conventions of a magazine. This became very useful when i was creating my own magazine. And it helped me to make it as much like a real school magaizne as possible.