When I look back at my school

magazine, I feel like I have learnt a

lot, especially in the area of

Photoshop. Before hand I knew

little to nothing at all, and even

though we didn’t use Photoshop in

the preliminary task, I feel that my

lack of knowledge and skills for

Publisher shows a lot. I used a lot of

box’s to help me layout the

magazine (yet it was a good

structural technique) and it made it

look very basic and boring. My

colour scheme was very bland,

and my school logo was a

photograph of a drawing I did on

my plan. This shows that my

knowledge at this point was very

basic and very limited.

When planning my school magazine, it was originally going to be a

Halloween special, hence the reason why I used Alice in

Wonderland with creepy make-up. In my first plan I was going to use

multiple graphics of pumpkins/bats/coffins as well as other

Halloween inspired images. However I realised that this would be

quite difficult because I would have to hand draw all the images

and the house style would have no consistency as all the fonts and

colours would change in order to fit the theme of Halloween. But I

have learned that it needed to be conventional to the genre of

music I am aiming to promote and represent.

My music magazine cover changed a lot over time, the design changed and so

did the layout. This was because there wasn’t a lot of content on the cover, too

much space and it just didn’t represent my target audience well enough.

My magazine contents page changed a lot too, the layout changed regularly

due to content being added/taken away and manipulated. This was because

there wasn’t a lot of content, too much space and it just didn’t fit the codes and

conventions of a music genre.

My double page spread didn’t change that much, except for the fact that I

wanted to manipulate the image a bit more as I felt that it didn’t stand out to

the audience that much. By making it more vibrant, I felt that it made the star

look bolder and I also felt that the boldness of the image fitted well with the

colour scheme.