Magazine Research

Deconstruction of Rap Magazines

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Final Preliminary Task

Here is my final preliminary task. I chose red for the masthead of this educational magazine as I thought it was a bright colour and would stand out. I tried to keep continuity by using the same red and yellow in both the cover and the contents page as this would make the magazine look more proffesional instead of having a variety of different colours across both pages.

The images were well taken in particular the two on the contents page. On thew contents page i placed the images along the right of the page with my text in a column along the left. I did this as most magazines write the contents in columns and I was trying to create a magazine that looked proffessional. Instead of using a background I kept the original background from the photo that I took and based the rest of my cover around that image. 

This was my first time ever using photoshop and I found it extremely hard too use. Everything from resizing an image, to cropping out pictures was all very hard and i was constantly going to sir for help on how to use the software. However for a beginner using photoshop I feel the overall outcome is not too bad.