Skills development

First draft of magazine cover

This is the first draft of my magazine cover, through feedback i found out that it is not proffesional looking and i personaly think that i can change it to look a lot better. It looks rushed and the editing techniques arent as good as i know i can personaly do. By comparing it to proffessional products it is clear that it looks nothing like that of a proffessional standard.
Print Prelim Task from the beginning of the AS year

This is the magazine i created at the beginning of the year, i dont think it is very good because i didnt have very good photoshop skills when i started AS, so i used very basic stuff. My contents page looks very rushed and un proffesional. However the shot on my front cover looks proffesional and the angle and distance of it is good.
My skills have developed since them because i have learnt more about the technologies i can use to make my magazine. Examples of this are..

Photography skills
I have learnt basic skills such as the rule of thirds, how to frame a shot correctly, although the shot for this magazine is good in my opinion i was able to experiment more with different shots throughout creating my music magazine and i knew more about framing in genereal. Lighting is another key that i didnt know so much about whilst doing my prelim, as i created my final product i also experiment with different lights and exposures. I could also take the photographs in completely different places, as aposed to the fact that i was limited by doing my prelim because it was a college magazine.

The layout of a magzine
As I was doing my prelim I didnt look into different types of proffesional magazines so i didnt have the knowledge about creating the layout. My music magazine is better presented through the layout simply because i researched music magazines such as Kerrang!, Rocksound, NME, so that I could see how they were set out and what kind of headlines were generic for that type of magazine.

Editing and Fonts
I learnt that you could download new objects to photoshop such as brushes and fonts. Brushes allow you to be more creative and help with the aesthetic appeal to the magazine and Fonts help make the piece of work more exact to what you would want to create. I used www.dafont.com to download a range of fonts which i used for my magazine. I didn't know about this technologie for my prelim so thats why I think it looks bland and simple.