Evaluation of my preliminary task
For my preliminary task, I was asked to create a front page and contents page for a college magazine. I need to do research into previous college magazines so I had a good idea how I would plan, design, and create my front cover and contents page.
I started by analysing two contents pages and front covers. This was slightly challenging but I had completed it in a short amount of time. This gave me more of an idea to how my college magazine would look; I learned about anchorage of images to text and how important the masthead was to the front cover. The magazine had to be appealing, so the use of pictures in the contents page and the main image on the front cover had to be interesting and clear.
After completing the analysis part of the task I went on to planning my design. I created two front cover and contents page plans and then chose the best one. This part of the task was easy and helped when it came to the actual designing of the page on InDesign. I chose the one which was more interesting but at the same time was conventional to the ideas that I gathered from the analysis.
Then I was on the design, I used the software of InDesign to create my front page and cover. I found this part of the task the most challenging as I had not used InDesign before so I found it tricky to get used to. My photo that I took of a college student was landscape so I had to crop it down to the correct size, in this I created a lot of whitespace for the masthead to fit in at ease. I used my plan to compose my pages and experimented with a variety of texts before choosing the one I thought worked best with the picture. Also I used colours that were similar to the photo which shows the use of anchorage in my product (which I learned from the analysis).
I think my completed magazine front cover and contents page were successful in keeping conventions and looking as interesting as the ones that I analysed and I am very pleased with the outcome. But if I was to do it again, I would add more colours to the photograph and so to the text as well, making it more outstanding and eye catching like the other college magazines there are.
I started by analysing two contents pages and front covers. This was slightly challenging but I had completed it in a short amount of time. This gave me more of an idea to how my college magazine would look; I learned about anchorage of images to text and how important the masthead was to the front cover. The magazine had to be appealing, so the use of pictures in the contents page and the main image on the front cover had to be interesting and clear.
After completing the analysis part of the task I went on to planning my design. I created two front cover and contents page plans and then chose the best one. This part of the task was easy and helped when it came to the actual designing of the page on InDesign. I chose the one which was more interesting but at the same time was conventional to the ideas that I gathered from the analysis.
Then I was on the design, I used the software of InDesign to create my front page and cover. I found this part of the task the most challenging as I had not used InDesign before so I found it tricky to get used to. My photo that I took of a college student was landscape so I had to crop it down to the correct size, in this I created a lot of whitespace for the masthead to fit in at ease. I used my plan to compose my pages and experimented with a variety of texts before choosing the one I thought worked best with the picture. Also I used colours that were similar to the photo which shows the use of anchorage in my product (which I learned from the analysis).
I think my completed magazine front cover and contents page were successful in keeping conventions and looking as interesting as the ones that I analysed and I am very pleased with the outcome. But if I was to do it again, I would add more colours to the photograph and so to the text as well, making it more outstanding and eye catching like the other college magazines there are.