Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the

progression from it to full product?

Front Cover

Preliminary Front Cover My Full Product

From my preliminary task to my full product I have learn how to do text effects to make the text look more unique and special to the magazine. The text on my full product looks like it is specific of the genre of music that my magazine is.

From preliminary exercise I learnt and decided that my positioning statement should be on the left side rather than the right side and that it should be smaller and bolder. It is also more out the way and fits under the masthead.

Preliminary tasks barcode was too big and the price of the magazine wasn't on the barcode and there is no magazine website on there. So on my full product I kept my barcode in the same place but made it smaller and put the website of the magazine and the price of the magazine on it. On both products I used the same buzzword, to attract the readers

attention, however I added more stories to make the reader feel like they are getting more for their money.

From my preliminary task to my full product I also learn camera shots and image effects. N

On my preliminary task I didn't have a main coverline, however on my full product I had one which is large and bold to get the readers attention, I also used a unique font which only features on this coverline. I used my text effects that I developed from the preliminary exercise.

I used a competition on my full product. This is to attract the audience.

On my preliminary exercise my coverlines werent bold and didnt stand out to the audience. However on my full product they are in bold to stand out more.

Contents Page

Preliminary task contents page

Full product contents page.

On the preliminary task, I didnt use any text effects on the masthead. The font used for the title of the magazine and for the word “contents” was in the same font, which is plain and boring. On the full product I used text effects for my masthead and a bold font for the word “contents”.

On the preliminary task I didnt have the issue date and the issue number on. For my full product I decided to use them as most other magazines I looked at had them

On the full product the subsidiary images are lined up with each other and bar the main image they are all roughly the same size. This is something I didn't do for my preliminary exercise and the images look messy . There are also no page numbers on the preliminary task, this is something which i did include for the main product

On the preliminary task the page numbers were in a different colour to the coverlines, however on my full product I decided to keep them in the same colour as the coverlines but make them bold so they stand out and in a larger font.

On the preliminary task there were no subscription details or details of where to buy the magazine from. On the full product I decided that this was a must of the music magazine. So I put them out the way and in a smaller font than the coverlines and the sublines.

On the preliminary task the titles for regulars and features didnt stand out and they were in the same font as the masthead. For my full product the titles had their own unique font as were larger than the coverlines so that they would stand out.

On the preliminary task, the regulars were not divided up. This is something that I did on the full product so to break up the text and make it more attractive for the audience to read through.