my reflection on pre lim task.

This is my completed Pre-lim task, my front cover of a school magazine and my contents page. i think i picked up adobe photo shop very quickly seeing as it was my first time ever on the programme, i really enjoyed experiencing a new way of creating work on a computer.it took me about a week and a half to complete the task. after i got to grips with photoshop after a hour of being on it i uploaded my front cover picture. the picture i chose to take was of four 6 form students in-front of the war memorial in the school library. i cropped it and took the back round out of my image, i then started to add borders and an oldershaw logo. then i used the tool were you can have text over images, i enjoyed experimenting around with the text as i have never been on a programme that lets you over lay text in so many ways. the colours used on my front page was mostly gold and black, i think i chose these colours well as they went with the colours of the image, also the colour's of the school. i think i organised the layout of my magazine cover well. improve my magizine cover and contents page i could of spent more time on it. Also i could of thought about about my image more, for instance smartend the students up and have a dress code. the time i spent on this task wasnt really that long, i shold of spent more time on it, but for my main task i will spend longer on it and work on it during free lessons.
the original image i have on my front cover had a back round but i thought it would be more suitable to take it out, so i cropped around it and had the students on a white back round.
the style oh photo we were supposed to use was medium close up where a mine is more full lenth, in my next task i will make sure the photo i choose to take is correct to the right standard.

The Generic Conventions for my main task

For my main task of creating a music magazine i will need to include the following:

• Masthead/Logo-Shrotened down version of the title
• House style- Making my magazine very distinctive. if it has no structure is more for teenage audience
• Bar code- so the magazine looks more interesting and real
• Writing on all pages
• images needed on every page
• Writing and anchor text needed on front page
• Price and Date
• Popular festivals and events
• Direct address
• Cover titles to give more information about magazines
• baner use for text standings

These are all i need to make my magazine good to its full potential.