My Preliminary Pages

In preparation to building up these two pages of my school magazine, I did some target research. We interviewed some of the teachers from our school to gain knowledge on what they personally want to see in my school magazine. I also just did abit of reading up on the internet just to see how to do the basic skills on the program pages.so that I know a lot of the techniques I should use in my magazine we researched some key terms and then labeled an already existing magazine which helped me when it came to organizing my front page.

I have created my preliminary front page and contents pages. I haven’t used apple macks before so learning the different programs was a little tricky for me.

What I feel went well was the way I managed to organize the images around my front page. I tried to create a sort of distance effect to try and leave a sort of open feel to the school however my use of the program I feel didn’t achieve that as I’m not that experienced with the program pages, which is were I designed my two pages. My title ‘Once upon a CBA’, title I didn’t want to be the average written title at the top of the pages so I just put it into a different font and presented it down the left hand side of the page, which I think was quite creative on my behalf but hey that might just be me. The feature titles around the corner of my page I decided to do in WOB.I feel I needed to do this, as my background image is quite dark in various places so to make the text stand out fully I put it in white.

I used a bullet on my front page to try and highlight something that I know a lot of students are interested in.

What went well on my contents page was the images I feel I did use my images in a really smart way, trying to get across that student are important but books hold the details. I have labeled and numbered the different pages so in theory it’s a contents pages but the way I have presented it makes me doubt it in some sort of way.in my contents page I have decided to feature some of the students in the school just to ring home that it is a school magazine however, I feel there needs to be some sort of more text on there like maybe a quote from a teacher. I feel the colors I used again went well with my current school theme and overall in my opinion with a few tweaks it will be okay.

Went I thought went bad thought my process into building these pages is my lack of skills in the technology on the computer. I feel that if I already had more of an understanding than just knowing the basics I could have made my magazine look quite smart and what a professional magazine is like however, one of interviewers said that a professional approach might just be to boring. I also feel that If I would have planned the pages before I done them and didn’t just do it blind it would be a lot more organized and presented.

overall id say these pages are not up to the standard i would have hoped, and i hope to learn the new skills to improve on my assessed pages.