From her preliminary task to her music magazine foundation portfolio, the student learned many new Photoshop skills. In her preliminary task, she only used basic skills and one original image with uniform text colors. However, for her music magazine she used varied colors, shapes like a yellow circle to announce an event, and multiple original images laid out professionally. She also included typical magazine elements like a barcode and price that were missing from her first attempt. Overall, her music magazine displayed more complex design, layout, and skill application compared to her initial preliminary task.

1. What do you feel you have learnt
from the progression from your
preliminary task to your foundation
portfolio (music magazine)

3. Preliminary Task
When I did my preliminary task I was still in the process of figuring out
how exactly to use photoshop, therefore I only used the basic skills I
knew how to use.
I only used one original image on my front cover but I had thought
through how I wanted it to be and it came out how I had hoped.
I also used the same colour for all the text on my front cover which
was blue and white. This meant that the masthead didn’t stand out
except for the fact it was bigger than most other fonts and because
I had used a tool to bend the writing to create a bridge shape. After
doing research on magazines, I found out that magazines don’t tend
to use those shape tools to bend there text, therefore this is
something I have corrected now.
The lighting for my preliminary task wasn’t correct, I used lighting but
it wasn’t used properly and instead as you can see, the image came
out more yellow.

4. Foundation Portfolio – Music
Magazine
After doing plenty of research on photoshop I picked up on many skills that I
didn’t use in my preliminary task.
As I said, I corrected the masthead so that it isn’t in a shape formation and so that
it isn’t bent. I also used plenty of different colours to keep my front cover
bright and eye catching. So that the reader will want to keep reading.
I also learnt how to use shapes, such as the yellow circle I use on my front cover
so that it makes the announcement of Kayyah posters stand out. I used the
circle because after plenty of research I found out that many indie magazines
have circles on them especially when announcing something like I was. To
make the circle more suttle and so you could still see my main image I lowered
the opacity of the circle. This is something I wouldn’t of known how to have
done when doing my preliminary task.
I missed out some of the main conventions of a magazine on my preliminary task
such as a barcode and price and I included them in my music magazine.
In my preliminary task I only used one main image on my front cover, not only did
this make my task look like I hadn’t made much effort with it but it made it
look quite plain. Where as on my music magazine front cover I have used the
main image and then used another 4 original images, which are all placed in a
row at the bottom of my front cover. This makes my magazine look more
realisitic as all the pictures are of different people and are in different
locations therefore looking like ‘Indigo’ have been travelling and doing their
photoshoots.

5. My preliminary task overall looked quite simple where as all of my front cover,
contents and double page spread of my music magazine look unique and
like they have had a lot of effort put into them. Created by fonts, colours,
people, images, effects etc.
Preliminary Task
Foundation
Portfolio –
Music
magazine