Preliminary task: contents mock-up

preliminary evaluation

Good things that I found when producing my magazine cover and contents mock-up were that I found it easy to layout the magazine cover and contents page because I had made a magazine cover before in a previous task so I knew how to lay it out and also what to include on the magazine cover, for example masthead and main cover image. Something else that I found when doing the preliminary task was taking the photographs for my magazine cover as it is easy to get a photo that is relevant to your magazine cover instead of one of the internet that does not link to your magazine cover.

One of the bad things that I found when doing the preliminary task was that I had not used photoshop for a long time and kept making time consuming mistakes, so I had to learn how to use it properly again which took time that I did not have which badly affected how I did the task. Another thing that I found when doing the task is that I was not very good at managing my time and I ended up spending to much time on the cover of my magazine and deciding what to put on it and therefore I had to rush my contents page at the end of the task.

When doing my next task I will have to make sure I know how to use all the programs needed to do the task properly before I start the task, therefore I will not have to waste time during the task to learn how to use things properly. Another things I must do to improve the way I work on the next task is to have a plan of which parts I am going to work on and when so I will not spend the majority of my time on one area and then having to rush the next area.

To develop my work for next time I must make sure I know how to use all the programs and equipment I will need to do the task properly to avoid wasting time. I must also plan what I am going to do while doing the task before I start it so I will not run out of time or spend too much time on one particular area of the task.

Preliminary task: Brief

For my preliminary task I chose the print task. I had to produce a front cover for a new school or college magazine, it had to include a medium close-up photograph of a student and also appropriately laid out text and masthead. As well as this I had to produce a contents page mock - up. The images and text I used in the task had to be original, for example all the pictures i used were taken by me.

The reason that I chose the print brief was that it was the most simple to produce as all the resources needed to make the front cover and contents page were readily available, another reason that I chose this brief was that I had already used photoshop which meant that I would not have to learn how to use something else.