Reflection

It was critical to learn about the various conventions before launching the magazine. This includes the front cover, contents page, and two-page spreads. We also had to choose a genre with which we were familiar to conduct research. I chose Hip Hop for my music magazine because I already had some good ideas for what I could do.

Due to the fact that every piece of content on my magazine pages is entirely original, I believe I successfully met the requirements. I selected the fonts, wrote the text, photographed the images, and designed the entire magazine. I also managed to include four of my images, as suggested by the brief.

A lightbulb moment for me was probably discovering the lighting tools that were available to me in InDesign. I used these for my Double Page Spread to edit the cover star into the photo and blend him in using lighting and shadows. I had to create the shadows by myself using the brush tool, where I created a bit of a shadow and darkened the left side of the model, and then I discovered the lighting tools that made it a lot easier for me to blend him in.

If I had to tell myself to start again I would tell myself to perhaps use a wider variety of colours as all three of the pages are based on the same few colours, which I think work well but I should have changed the colours for every page. I would also make my contents page more exciting as I think that it looks a bit bland and there is not much going on.