Preliminary exercise

For the Preliminary exercise, we had to create a front cover and contents page for a college magazine.  I had taken a picture of a student, to represent the college and so the audience could relate to her. Moreover it was a medium body shot, which was a full bleed on the cover.  We had to make a title for the magazine and put in various different cover lines to indicate what main stories that would be featured in the magazine. In addition, we had to create a contents page which provided information of the features of the magazine with page numbers.

Developing skills on Indesign

To develop my knowledge and understanding of indesign we were given a task in class to help familiarise ourselves with the indesign software.  We were given a double page spread and were told to imitate the layout of the spread in indesign. This was beneficial to me because it allowed me to become more comfortable with the software and become custom to the tools, which made it more efficient for me to create the double page spread.  This will help me in future, when making my own music magazine because I would be able to use it easily and know will how to use different tools to create a connotational effect.