Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task - Front cover

Preliminary Task - Contents page

18/09/13 In media I have been focusing on creating my preliminary task which was to construct a front cover and a contents page for a school magazine. Firstly I took a range of photos for the magazine, which included long shots, close ups, shots where the model was conforming to the male gaze and ones where she was not. I chose to take several photos as I had not decided what my cover story would be yet so I didn’t know what photo would be appropriate. The next lesson I decided on two photos to use and then began constructing a draft for the pages. I used this as an opportunity to record my ideas and decide on the layout. I then transferred my drawings on paper to the computer by using Indesign and started to create my front cover and contents page. I found that I had drawn the titles too small on my draft and had to put less on my front cover in my final design as there was not enough room for the subheadings. In the next lesson I polished my final designs and uploaded them to my blog.