Preliminary Task- Front Cover and Contents Page



 

This is the front cover of my preliminary task- College Magazine.

I created it on Microsoft Publisher, using my phone to take images and the usual text tool to add text to the cover.

Really, I like how I used colours for the text so that it was clearly visible against the dark background, and followed the codes and conventions such as using a barcode, including a masthead, subheading etc and my image was quite good in quality-it wasn't pixelated.  

However, I definitely won't use publisher when it comes to creating my actual music magazine, the tools are great to help you getting used to starting magazine designs, but they are too basic to help edit images, text and other properties on the front cover.

I will also use a better type of image, yes this has good quality but it is plain, and boring, it doesn't exactly shout out that it is a great magazine.

Finally, I will design a better looking masthead, the textbox that surrounds my text looks quite tacky and as if I didn't have time to complete my design properly, but I couldn't pick a colour without it looking completely awful.

This is the contents page from my preliminary task, here I have again used clear images and I think the layout is pretty organised and good, so you can clearly see the images and it doesn't look to cramped, however, I don't think that I used the correct text colour because it is hard to read on the darker aspects of the background. Also, the size was a little too big because when I printed it off, it cut off half the sentences, proving it hard to read altogether.

I like the font style I used for the masthead again, but like previously stated, I don't think that the white background looks very nice or professional. 

In addition, I am happy again because I followed most of the codes and conventions, just needed to add an issue number, date and additional info.
From this, I can realise that this is what I will do for my actual music magazine, I will make sure my colours are matched correctly and don't contrast horribly, there will be no white spaces. Saying that, I will make sure my font size is better, images are just as clear but maybe edited with better effects, and I will make sure to add the additional information. Just like a professional magazine would.