Preliminary Task

For my preliminary exercise i had to create a front cover for a new college magazine using InDesign and Photoshop. In this cover i had to include a photo of a student in medium close-up, appropriately laid out text and a masthead. I included a barcode image, the date, price, appropriate headlines and the college logo to make the cover look more professional.
Throughout this task i have learnt many of the basic photoshop techniques e.g. cutting, cropping, changing opacity of images and text boxes etc. I had never before been on the InDesign programme and so didn't know the first thing about it, but due to this task i have learnt the basic skills and will be able to take them forward into producing my coursework piece.
Although this front cover is very basic, it does follow many of the conventions of magazines. It includes a barcode, date and price on the cover. There is a main photograph using direct address as the person is looking straight out of the magazine cover and attracting the reader. My magazine cover also follows a colour scheme of blue and white.
If i was to do this task again i would concentrate more on the cutting out of my photograph and add more creativity to the colour scheme, text and overall cover.

This is the contents page i created for my magazine, the colour scheme is blue and yellow which relates back to the colours of the college logo.