The document describes the evolution of the author's school magazine project from its early stages to the final product. Initially, the author had very basic knowledge of design programs like Photoshop and Publisher, as their first magazine layout used many boxes and had a bland color scheme. For their next iteration, they planned a Halloween-themed magazine but realized it would be too difficult. They ultimately shifted to a more conventional music magazine format to better represent their target genre and audience. Both the magazine cover and contents page went through multiple changes to the layout and design as the author adjusted for the amount of content and tried to better fit industry codes and conventions. The double page spread saw minor adjustments to make the featured image more vibrant and eye

2. When I look back at my school
magazine, I feel like I have learnt a lot,
especially in the area of Photoshop.
Before hand I knew little to nothing at
all, and even though we didn’t use
Photoshop in the preliminary task, I feel
that my lack of knowledge and skills for
Publisher shows a lot. I used a lot of
box’s (yet it was a good structural
technique)and it made it look very
basic and boring. My colour scheme
was very bland, and my school logo
was a photograph of a drawing of my
school logo. This shows that my
knowledge at this point was very basic
and very limited.

3. When planning my school magazine, it was originally going to be a
Halloween special, hence the reason why I used Alice in Wonderland
with creepy make-up. In my first plan there were going to be multiple
graphics of pumpkins/bats and a series of other Halloween inspired
graphic images. However I realised that this would be quite difficult
because I would have had to hand draw all of the graphic images,
and the house style would have no consistency as all the fonts and
colours would change in order to fit the theme of Halloween. But I
learnt that it needed to be conventional to the genre of music I was
aiming to promote and to represent.

4. My magazine cover changed a lot, the design changed and so did the
layout. This was because there wasn’t a lot of content, to much space and
it just didn’t represent my target audience well enough.

5. My magazine contents page changed a lot, the layout changed regularly
due to the content being added/taken away and manipulated. This was
because there wasn’t a lot of content, to much space and it just didn’t fit
the codes and conventions of a music magazine.

6. My double page spread didn’t change that much, except for the fact that I
wanted to manipulate the image a bit more as I felt that it didn’t stand out
to the audience a lot, and I felt that making it more vibrant added more
colour to the colour scheme.