Preliminary task ideas

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.

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.