Drafting and Planning: Page Plus Exercise

In preparation for creating our own magazine, we were tasked with creating a mock-magazine using a piece of publisher software called “PagePlus”. Within this program we could import pictures from the internet to create a realistic-looking magazine. On our magazine’s front cover we had to include; a masthead, the issue date, the issue number, a URL, a barcode and a main cover line and accompanying main image, as well as some secondary cover lines. We also had to create a contents page and a double page spread. I tried to keep my magazine consistent throughout to keep a sense of realism. To do this I used the same colour scheme throughout as well as using the same cover star on each of the 3 elements. Furthermore, to keep the magazine consistent I ensured the page number I displayed on the contents page for my double page spread is identical on the actual double page spread.

This task is useful for me as when I start to create my real magazine I will be familiar with the software that I am using which will allow me to complete it in a more efficient manner and I will know how to do all the things I need to do in order to achieve realism with my magazine.