Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression

from it to the full product?

Preliminary Magazine Music Magazine One of the main big differences in the magazine is the quality of the images I have used, as the main image on the preliminary task is very blurry whilst the image on my music magazine is of a high standard of quality and this makes an immediate difference to the magazine.

Another thing that has been improved in my music magazine is that the images which I have used are more organised and have boxes around them so that they become more defined.

The colour scheme on my music magazine has improved since my Preliminary task as it was mostly used by two colours and didn’t look colourful and attract the eye whilst the music magazine did this and had a wider colour scheme which meant that it was more appealing to my target audience.

Another thing that has improved is that the whole of my front cover has a theme and all of

the text used for cover lines is the same text which makes it look better rather that it being different text and looking as if it does not fit together. This is also why for the text I have stuck to 3 main colours as it keeps the theme running throughout the magazine.

My skills have improved on Photoshop as when creating the Preliminary magazine front cover I did not do any editing to the main image apart from taking the background out. This changed when I was creating my music magazine as I edited the model so that her make-up was more defined and this meant that it also suited my genre of magazine more.

Researching different front covers made a very big difference in my music magazine as it meant that I had examples to look and get inspiration from. It also meant that I had for cover lines ect. So I could make them sound more real.

In conclusion I think that my level of skills has developed massively between my Preliminary magazine and my music magazine as I think that my magazine has moved to a better quality of magazine and looks more professional. This is because the images, layout and titles are all of a high standard. Therefore I think I was successful in improving my magazine front cover.

Preliminary Magazine Music MagazineI think that my contents page for my music magazine had massively improved from my Prelim. magazine as I had a better knowledge of QuarkXPress and knew some of the basic tool and techniques to make the contents page., I was able to easily add images, text and change setting quite easily.

Another way which my contents page has improved is the title of the page, as I have added a box around my music magazine title which makes it stand out more and be bolder, it also looks more professional than the prelim.

Another thing which has improved is the content, as there is less images and more information on my music magazine which makes it look more professional and less like GCSE media work .

However a thing that has stayed the same in my music magazine which was in my prelim Is the colour scheme, even thought the colour scheme is not the same on each page I have made sure that I stick to a max. of four colours on both, this makes it look professional.

Another thing which has changed is that I made a silly mistake on my prelim by having the ‘S’ in drop caps at the time this looked okay but when creating my music magazine I knew that I would not want to do this again as it made it look un-proffessinal.

On both the pre-lim and music magazine contents pages I have used images which are direct mode of address, this is because then the target audience feel like the people in the images are looking at them and it feels more personal to them.

Double page spread.

Even though I didn’t do a pre-lim double page spread I have still managed to improve my skills. One reason for my making my magazine have an extra page was so that I would be able to fit more information onto my article. This also meant that I was able to have a full page photo on one of the pages so that the viewer could see what the band looks like, and therefore decide whether or not they like them.

I have put a caption on my image because this is one of the codes and conventions of a music magazine so that the reader would know what is in the image and it also makes it look quite professional and finished. I have put a white box around my caption so that it stands out against the image but also makes it easily readable.

I have chosen to use 3 columns for my article as when I looked at existing articles this was an often used number of columns. It also means that it is easy for the target audience to read. It also means that it fits in with the codes and conventions of a music magazine.

For the title of my article I have made the band name be in bold, bright text so that it stands out for the rest of the text and becomes the most important text on the page. My heading for my double page spread is big and stretches across the whole two pages because it is the most important text on the page.

I have made the images of each individual band member just lay over one column this is so that it fits a certain theme and before I had researched existing magazines I didn’t know that this was important to make it look professional.

Overall.Overall I think that my work has improved massively from my preliminary task to my music magazine as I have both a better quality of images and text which made it Look and sound more professional.

Another thing which I have improved is that I have managed to keep to more of a set theme, using the same colours, text style ect to give it a professional look.

So to conclude I think my music magazine was more successful as seen as I had a set target audience it meant that I would be able to make the magazine suit them, which it did.