Evaluation of Main Task

The type of music i chose to base my music magazine around was Pop Music. The reason i chose to do this is because it i has been the basic sound of music that everyone has grown up over the last twenty years. For my magazine i decided to base mine around a Female duo. The audience i have tried to target for my music magazine has been that of children aged 10-18, as the population of readers that read pop magazines such as 'Top of the Pops' are of that age.
The title i chose for my magazine was 'Chart Smash', the name fitted well with the genre, as it was similiar to brand of pop magazines that are published today.
I tried to attract my audience by using vibrant colours, as vibrant colors are bright and stand out to the reader, symbolizing pop music as light and easy.
The pictures taken for my magazine were taken in my friend's garden. Because the garden was very large, it gave me the idea to take the photos in different parts, for example the picture used for the double page spread was taken with the girls sitting on the side of the pond, whilst the front picture was taken with one of them standing beside the fountain, whilst the other gently leaning on it.
The reason i had them in those positions was to give a more powerful affect as a front cover,and also to bring an essence of Girl Power to the magazine, as well as to attract the audience's attention. I also used bright colors for the front cover to create a friendly feeling towards nthe audience.
Because the photo used for the front picture was originally wider, i had to crop the picture on Microsoft picture manager in order for the picture to fit onto the A3 page.
When taking the pictures i had to make sure that they wouldn'ty come out as too 'daring' as th girls are wearing very short dresses, i had to make sure that when taking the photos they weren't posing too risky.
Microsoft Picture manager was a big help when editing the pictures. For the preliminary exercise, which was to design a college magazine, the picture had to be stretched, so to avoid from doing the exact same thing, i used microsoft picture manager so i could crop my picture without having to stretch it.
Throughout this task, maintaining the grasp of Desk top Publisher has been difficult. It has been hard for me to be able to put forward my best effort, and i feel as if i have worked hard and put in my best effort in order to make this magazine look realistic, and also as if it were a real music magazine.
However i do feel as if i have learnt alot from having used DTP and hopefully will learn more in the near future.