Starting My Prelim

In order to create the best music magazine possible, I needed to practise using Photoshop and designing magazines so I created a Prelim task- to design a school magazine. I carried out some reasearch into school magazines, by looking at other magazines and creating brainstorms, collages of images and listing all my ideas. From here, I created my magazine from an images I took around the school. It gave me a great insight into using the software, and now I am ready to create my music magazine.

Evaluations of Websites

To gain a good understanding of magazine house styles, I carried out an evaluation on the sites. I chose to evaluate two magazine websites in which follow the theme of my magazine- clubbing, djing and dance. My first magazine is 'Mixmag', which a very popular music and dance magazine. This is the type of magazine I want to create and evaluating the site gave me lots of ideas towards my house style. The next website I evaluated was 'RWD' which I thought was also a very good site- even though thier magazine layout did not impress me. I got many ideas for my magazine from these sites.