Question 6 - What have you learnt from technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the pregression from it to full product?

Final Double Page Spread

Final Contents Page

Final Front Cover

Double Page Spread Development

• Firstly, I divided the page, added my logo and the masthead
• Then I added my feature article photograph, cutting it out using the magnetic lasso tool and the rubber tool
• Then I added an image to the top right hand corner of the page
• Then I added a stand first
• Next I started filling in the left hand side of the right page with questions and answers using the text tool
• I then filled in the left hand side
• After that I had some negative space at the bottom of the page, therefore I added social media links
• Then I added a page number, website address and date to the bottom of the page
• Next, I added pull quotes around my feature article photograph using the text tool and the rectangle tool
• Lastly, I had some negative space therefore I added stars to fill it in and make the pages look more connected  

Contents Page Development

• Firstly, I changed the colour of my background and then I added the masthead.
• I then added a logo to the top left hand side of the page
• Then I proceeded to add in my images. I cut them out by using the magnetic lasso tool and the rubber tool.
• I then added page numbers over the top of my images to make it easy for a reader to navigate through my magazine
• Then I used the line tool to border my images to separate them more
• I also put a border around my logo to separate it from the page
• Then I started to add in my text using the text tool
• After adding all of my text I added a date, issue number and web address to the top of the page and underneath the images
• It came to my attention that the page numbering was not accurate to a real magazine and therefore I went back and increased the numbers so that it was implied that my magazine would go up to 200 pages
• I then moved my image up from the bottom and bordered it to make it look more connected, I also used the fill tool to add a white background to make the subjects stand out more
• Lastly, I had a bit of negative space at the bottom of the page, therefore I added a rectangle with information about a free CD that you would get with my magazine to fill the space

Front Cover Development

• Firstly I created my masthead using the text tool and  coloured the background using the bucket tool.
• I then placed my feature article photograph, cutting it out with the magnetic lasso tool. 
• I then added a puff to make my magazine more appealing.
• Then I started to add in all my plugs down the left hand side of my front cover.
• Then I filled in the right hand side of my front cover with plugs.
• On the right hand side of my front cover I decided to add a plug that was in a circle to add more shape to the page. I did this by using the ellipse tool.
• Then I added a bar-code, website link, price and date to the bottom right hand corner of the page.
• I finished my front cover by adding a cover line which takes up the focus of the front cover. I did this by again using the text tool and using the rectangle tool to put behind it to make it stand out more but I lowered the opacity of the rectangle so that the writing was still clear and that the feature article photograph could still be seen underneath.