Preparing for our preliminary task

Mr Liddel told us to go out in two groups and take some original photographs around the school to give us a taste of how it is to take photos. The next lesson we reviewed the photos and gave constructive feedback to each other then the lesson after that we went on youtube and watched videos describing the rule of thirds, which is the rule of composing photos to a high quality by employing such skills as; keeping eyes on the top line of the grid on the photo and not keeping people centred in the photo.

Deciding our brief

print brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a mast head. additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

we chose this brief because we have the correct resources such as adobe photoshop and we looked at previous coursework and decided we can produce quality high standard work.