The student created a practice front cover for a magazine about how music has changed over time. They collected photos of iconic musicians through different eras and placed them at the bottom of the page with the title "Music Through Time" across the top. For their double page spread, they included an introductory article and created a timeline of music through the decades using black and white photos of older artists to show chronological order. While their practice pieces were not professional quality, the student was pleased with what they learned about InDesign techniques that could be applied to their final project.

1. Experiments
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2. Front Cover Process
My practice magazine topic was about how music has changed over time, I
chose this topic because I thought it would be easy to write about because
there are a lot of different ways the music industry has changed.
To create my front cover I used photoshop and then started by collecting
different photos of iconic musicians through time to put on the front cover of
my magazine. Once I had chosen my photos I used an editing tool to take the
background off. I placed all the photos at the bottom of the page and had the
magazine title ‘Music Through Time’ stretched across the top. I gave the
magazine a white border to make it more professional. As well as this I wrote an
short article introducing the magazine.

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
I like the collage of photos at the bottom of the page because I think it
successfully shows the reader what the magazine is about without having to
read the article or the title. Also, having interesting photos on the front page
will interest a wider audience. And I think that music through time is clever
magazine because it can attract a wide audience of different ages.
I think in my final magazine I will include more details because in my practice
magazine I’ve only included the price and date, but in a published magazine
they’d have to include more features, e.g. a barcode.

4. Double Page Process
For my double page spread I started my writing another introducing article to
explain what the magazine was about. Then I researched different music
articles so that I had information that I could include in my magazine. I
decided to create a timeline of music through the decades. I thought this
would be a good idea because it is a visual factor the reader can engage in
without committing to reading a long article, but also has information for the
reader to read. On the timeline I used black and white photos for the older
artists to show the chronological time order through past celebrities to
present.

5. Reflection
I was please with the end result for my double page spread because it wasn’t
meant to look like a professional, established magazine it was an opportunity
to explore different and new ways to use the InDesign software. So although
it wasn’t a piece of work that I would use for my final product I think it still
worked well as a magazine and through the process it meant that my end
project can be more successful because of the different techniques I learnt
through the experiment.