The aim of the preliminary task is to learn and develop already gain
skills of using Photoshop and InDesign programs by starting off the preliminary
exercises. Also, these types of exercises help me with understanding and using
such design programs and learn things about them. Doing the preliminary task
will benefit in my developing skills and fully prepare for a final outcome for
the main task.
Aimed to the preliminary task I need to produce my own front cover from
college magazine and initial content page. I will need to analyse the cover
magazine page and content page of any magazine I would choice, this is for me
to help myself how to do the cover pages and contents as they are in real,
selling magazines. Moreover, I can gather the idea from created mood board for
the design which I will choice for my own college magazine cover page.
Subsequently finishing analysing cover page and contents I will move to
designing my own front cover and initial content page (for my college magazine
task), using the gain ideas of layouts and other things. After finishing those
points I will move to taking pictures for my front cover basic on face framing
(CU, MCU, MS, and LS/MLS). The next step after taking pictures and prepare them
Photoshop to make them look as they from a real magazines I will start to
create the rest of the aspects which front cover have; such as masthead,
dateline, main image, model credit, cover line, main cover lines, left third,
bar code, cover lines and selling line if appropriate. The content page is my
initial idea which I will evaluate later, but firstly I will make it as a draft
of how I will want it to be look like and what I will want to include in it.
When I have finished I will evaluate the entire preliminary task by
explaining and assessing what I will want to improve and what I want to keep.