As part of a task today to develop our indesign skills we created our own copy of an NME magazine cover, shown above firstly is my copy and beside that is the original copy.

During this task I learnt how to use indesign, this includes altering text (fonts,weight, height, colour, centering text) I have also learnt how to place images in order to fill the cover and crop them. All of these skills have showed me how to create a conventional music magazine by using these design features typical to that of a music magazine. The features I learnt to include that are essential design features are the masthead, the main cover star, captions, pugs, plugs and cover lines.

Overall, I think I did a good job at finding similar fonts to the original copy, making the cover photo fill the page, and changing the weight of text. However, there is definitely room for improvement which I need to learn from, this includes placing the text correctly (as the text on the original is placed on the far right to the edge of the page), adding more definition where it is needed e.g on the ‘Florence’ title and remembering important details like the barcode. From this task I will use these skills when it comes to making my own music magazine, but before that I will need to improve my skills further to make sure I am prepared fully for my music magazine. Before making my music magazine I will watch three tutorials to help improve my skills.