The document describes the progression of the author's skills in creating a school magazine cover and contents page using Photoshop. Their first attempt had no clear color scheme, used bright colors randomly, and looked unprofessional. After researching successful magazines, the author learned about implementing a single striking image, using fonts consistently, airbrushing photos, and organizing information clearly. By following industry conventions like these across three magazine pages, the author was able to create a higher quality product that looked like a real music magazine.

2. Intro
• When I started out creating my
prelim task of creating a school
magazine cover and contents page. I
didn't really know how to use
Photoshop at this stage as I had no
real experience of using this piece of
software.
Since then I have come a long way to
be able to produce a detailed and well
crafted music magazine cover
contents page and featured page for
my own music magazine.

3. My first cover
• When I first
started I had no
clue what kind of
colour scheme I
should use or how
to even keep to it
this is shown as I
used a variety of
bright colours
which made the
magazine look
extremely
unprofessional
and childish.
I used a single picture to
take up the whole of the
page, I did this because
before starting my prelim
task I had seen many
different music and sport
magazines that did exactly
this. I knew that this was a
popular thing to do in the
magazine world as it looks
stylish and shows exactly
what their magazine was
about. Unfortunately I was
unable to implement there
success as I did not know
how to do such a thing.
I choose the iconic image of
school life to be on my front
cover.
I used splash to make my magazine stand out from
the rest with bright and bold colours as the fill
colour this did make the magazine stand out but
without a good colour scheme to follow this made
the magazine look childish and unprofessional

4. My music magazine cover
• I realized that my prelim task was a very
poor effort as it had no direction and for the
most of the magazine I did not follow forms
or conventions to make the magazine look
chic. Neither did I make the magazine look
unique as I was a beginner to Photoshop
and did not have a firm grasp of things I
could do on Photoshop weather it be editing
an image or where to put things so I decided
to look at other successful magazines such
as Q Kerrang and Mojo. I even did I copy of
GQs magazine on Chris Evans to allow me to
get the hang of Photoshop and the skills
needed to produce a classy magazine

5. My music magazine RnR
From this process I have learnt how to add
different fonts from the internet that I
needed to create my niche rock magazine.
This font was a crucial part of my full
product as it is all over my work from the
title to the cover line’s.
I have learnt how air brush
peoples imperfections I
needed this in order to
make my music magazine
look professional as you
would not see a unedited
photo on a professional
magazine such as Q.
I also learnt how to
make a
professional
looking contents
page by making
the list of artists in
one neat column. I
did this by using
the rulers that
Photoshop
provides.
I kept to a lot of
conventions one of
the major ones of
them was putting a
screen shot of the
cover page onto the
cover page. I felt that
this helped my
magazine to have a
quality feel to it.
I have learnt that by following a colour scheme
throughout my three pages of my music magazine I
am able to give a feel of a quality magazine. A colour
scheme also gives a sense of the genre I have chosen

6. Sum up
• I have learnt whilst producing my media
product that conventions and forms, by
following these conventions you are able to
distinguish what kind of magazine you are
looking at, it also helps to make the magazine
to look professional.
• Without following these conventions a music
magazine does not look like of a high quality I
have learnt this from my prelim task.