Print
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 masthead. 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 a double page spread of a new music magazine.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.
I have decided to do the print brief because I have had experience in producing a magazine, with a contents page and double page spread, and I will be familiar with how to use DTP and how to upload images to the computer in order to edit them. So, the advantage of doing the print task is that I can do even better with producing a magazine cover, contents and double page spread compared to my previous one.
My aims after completing the print task is to have done even better than I did previously, and improve anything that didn't work as well before. By doing the print task it gives me an opportunity to do even better than I did before, and show what I can do when it comes to DTP.
My challenges would be to not just do the same as I did at GCSE, I need to make sure I develop my knowledge of creating a magazine and do something different, so it shows that I have done better and shown that I have experience in using the program.
