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Below is a tutorial for how to use Indesign I watched in order to help me create my magazine cover.

This is the original magazine cover by NME.

In this task we learnt how to use Indesign to create magazine covers. This exercise has helped me as I am now able to make my own, original music magazine cover.

• I have learnt that using different fonts, colours and sizes in my writing helps to make an eye-catching magazine cover, as well as adding weight and changing the letter spacing.
• It has helped me to understand the technical conventions of a magazine cover, for example I learnt how to locate the masthead and pugs.
• I think that my magazine cover was somewhat accurate in copying the original cover because I managed to replicate the fonts of the writing as well as add the correct weight to the masthead, however the image of the main cover star was different to the original one and so made a more obvious difference in appearance overall.

Although I couldn’t use the exact same same image as the one used by NME, I do think I adapted my writing effectively in order to try and replicate the original cover an make the words clear for the audience to see, for example I changed the colours of the quote to black as this made the writing more easy to read.