Preliminary Task Design Ideas

Before creating my preliminary task, I sketched a design of how I wanted my final product to look. I have photographed them and placed the images below. During construction of my preliminary task, I will refer back to these drawings to remind myself where to place the images and the texts, etc.

Preliminary task video

 

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To start the course, we were asked to do a preliminary task of creating a front cover and a contents page for a school magazine. I was excited, and quickly sketched some ideas for my layout. I then used a DSLR camera to take photos of my models, Amy and Grace, which included a range of long shots, mid shots and close up shots, which I have used on my front cover and contents page.

I wanted a name for my magazine that denoted its purpose of being a place for the students of Haydon to voice their thoughts and opinions, and therefore decided on the name “Haydon Talks”.

In the next lesson I began constructing my pages, which I found great difficulty in as I had not used InDesign before. I have used a simple house style of navy blue, yellow and black as these are the school’s colours, and therefore link the magazine to Haydon.