Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Overall my progression has developed hugely since i first created my preliminary task, i had no basic knowledge on the forms and conventions of a magazine and what i needed to included to make it relevant to my target audience. In my preliminary task i was simply basing my forms and conventions based on the results shown in my student questionaire, this was at great help to me but was not effective as my own research on the magazine industry. When learning how to use photoshop for my main magazine i was able to understand the layers more and think of use of fonts, positioning of fonts, colour schemes and camera angles which i did not take into consideration on my preliminary task. Looking at the difference in my preliminary task and full product you are able to recognise that i have gained more knowledge on the forms and conventions needed to create an appealing music magazine, in which i did not know before. I did not realise that using too many different fonts would make my magazine seem less appealing and too busy in comparison to my full product. I had to think about how i would take my photographs so they would enable me enough room to place fonting around my model in my images.

Full Product Cover

Preliminary Cover

I thought about styling more when i made my full product, because i had to make my magazine relevant to the genre of music i was trying to achieve, and the termonoligy that I used in my cover lines to make it appeal to my dermographic profiles. I learnt from using photoshop to create my full product how to align the texting correctly and rescale this, this was quite important because I didnt want my full product to look as busy as my preliminary task, and I needed it to look more structured in order to be appealing and work effectively.



Full Product Contents

 

Preliminary Contents

Whilst creating my preliminary task for my College magazine I had no knowledge on how to use the layers to enable me to have the correct text alignment. This was very useful to practice afterwards, because when creating my full product I was then able to position my text and images in the correct places, in comparison to my text laying over my image in my preliminary task.  In comparison to my full product you can clearly recognise that in my preliminary task i have used too many colour schemes, and too many fonts making it less structured.  Looking at both my full product and preliminary contents page you can evidently see that I had no understanding in my preliminary tast of what sections I needed to include for a effective contents page, because I had no advertisements, no pull qoutes and no orgainisation in comparison to my full product. My research methods of collecting magazine's and looking at the orgainsation and structure of them was useful because i had simply not done this before my preliminary task work. Looking at the two in comparison I also noticed that I did not include a date, magazine name, or features like I had done in my full product.