The document describes a student's process of creating magazine covers and contents pages for a school magazine. Their first attempts used Macromedia Fireworks and had flaws like an unsuitable background, misaligned text, and poor framing of images. However, their final versions used Adobe Photoshop and showed significant improvement with a more professional design, neatly organized content, and an overall higher quality. The student felt they had made massive progression in their skills and understanding of the design process from their preliminary tasks to the final magazine creation.

1. Juhel Miah – AS Media Studies.

2. As you can see, above is my first attempt of a magazine cover, it is a school magazine as you can see. There are many
flaws in this cover and you can tell it has been made by someone with inexperience in making magazine covers. Firstly,
the background is not very good, even though there is a lot of space for text and images to be placed on the page. The
title is not at all nice and the effects applied does not even look at all good. The sub-article’s on the sides of the page are
inconsistent, some are not aligned properly with big spaces in between and the other sub-articles on the right hand side
are too squashed. The only good feature maybe the sponsorship deal going across the front page. This was made in
Macromedia Fireworks as well.

3. Here is the final outcome of my actual music magazine cover. As you can see it has improved a lot
from the first attempt. The background is much more suitable, the sub-article’s on the sides also
match with the background colour, they are all aligned nicely as well. The title of the magazine is
much more nicer as well, it suits with the information being conveyed on the page also. Everything
about this cover is much more better than my first attempt. This was made in Adobe Photoshop as
well, thus showing the difference in quality from Macromedia Dreamweaver.

4. Here is the final outcome of my first attempt of the contents page for the school magazine. Again this outcome was full
of flaws, starting with the setting. The setting for the picture is totally inappropriate and unsuitable, as you can see there
is a wall sticking out in the picture. The title cannot be fully placed at the top of the page due to the ceiling showing in
the picture, so this is one flaw, it is too close to the sub-articles. The framing of this shot is so poor, the sub-article’s on
the right hand side of the page are going on to another wall within the picture. The sub-article’s just look bad as well, the
font is unsuitable and is quite hard to understand. The three images on the corners of the page are quite small and are
hard to see. The positioning of the image on the top left hand corner is not nice, but had to be placed due to the title
coming in the way when it was placed horizontally. This all due to the framing of the shot. Everything about this
contents page was not good enough and was quite poor to be honest. This was made in Macromedia Fireworks.

5. As you can see here is the final outcome of my actual music magazine. When looking at this,
straight away you get a professional feel about it, it also looks professional. Everything on
the page is organised and looks very neat on the page. It looks like a proper contents page,
the sub-article’s are numbered and in columns coming neatly down the page in order,
compared to the first attempt in which the sub-article’s were all over the page. The title is in
necessary position and everything just combines nicely on the page. This was created on
Adobe Photoshop, thus showing the difference in quality between itself and Macromedia
Dreamweaver.

6. Overall I believe I have made massive progression from the preliminary tasks to the actual
creation of my music magazine. At first we were creating the magazines in Macromedia
Fireworks and now I have progressed to using a much more complicated software as Adobe
Photoshop and making a quality magazine. In terms of actual design and quality, I have also
vastly improved from the preliminary tasks, the previous slides showing my progression.
My layout, positioning and design have massively improved and I feel really satisfied with
myself in terms of progression and understanding the development process from the
preliminary tasks to the final creation of my music magazine.

7. Overall I believe I have made massive progression from the preliminary tasks to the actual
creation of my music magazine. At first we were creating the magazines in Macromedia
Fireworks and now I have progressed to using a much more complicated software as Adobe
Photoshop and making a quality magazine. In terms of actual design and quality, I have also
vastly improved from the preliminary tasks, the previous slides showing my progression.
My layout, positioning and design have massively improved and I feel really satisfied with
myself in terms of progression and understanding the development process from the
preliminary tasks to the final creation of my music magazine.