My Preliminary Work Analysis

For my preliminary coursework, we had to create a front page and a contents page for a school magazine. We started off by brainstorming for titles and ideas for stories within the magazine. We then drew sketches of what out front page and contents page could look like. This enabled us to gain ideas of what our magazine could look like and give us ideas for when it come to creating the front page and contents page. The last part of our preparing stage was to go out and take our photos. I went out and took multiple photos of lots of different things that I could put into my preliminary task. I also took a medium close up of one of my classmates to go on my front cover as my main story.
The sketching consisted of drawing two front pages and two contents pages I finished this for homework and then came up with a shot list for my photos. I then went around the school and took many pictures for my preliminary task. All of this gave me ideas of what my coursework would look like. I then uploaded the pictures I took onto Photoshop and started creating my front cover. We created our front cover first and then started creating our contents page.
I had a few problems when creating my preliminary coursework the biggest problem I had was that I wasn’t used to using Photoshop. I didn’t know what the icons meant or how to create my coursework. I overcome this by asking my teacher and he provided me with all the help I needed. Another problem I had was taking my front cover picture. I was taking the picture and the colour of the girls top was clashing with the background colour, this made it hard for me to cut her out using the lasso tool. I had to take this picture again but put my model on a darker background.
Overall, eventhough i had a few problems, i learnt alot and now have a wider understanding of taking photos, using photoshop and understanding music magazines. This was a poor atempt at my preliminary coursework but i understand what i have to do in the future for my main coursework peice.