Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Preliminary Task - College Magazine Final Product - My music magazine
My Preliminary Task
For my preliminary task I had to create a college magazine front cover, the basis of this task was mainly in preparation for my final product on creating a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. Additionally the preliminary task also developed my skills and gain experience in using Photoshop. The image below shows the certain aspects I have learned from the preliminary task and the skills that I have continued to develop whilst creating my final products.
Preliminary Task Continued ........
The following context shows a brief breakdown of my preliminary college magazine front cover compared to my final music magazine front cover. The benefits of doing the preliminary task helped me understand the key conventions that needed to be applied to a magazine front cover to make it effective to the targeted audience, as I found from my preliminary task it illustrated how unconventional it appeared and the mistakes I had made. For example it come to my notice that my college magazine did not conventionally follow the code of having three colours for the scheme, also there was no skyline. Through doing research for my music magazine, it came to my attention that from looking at existing magazines that when it came to planning I had to take into account the colour scheme, masthead, barcode, skyline, sell lines and I also learnt of the different types of shots that are conventionally used on the front cover of magazines.
Comparing my products
Comparitive Table
From the table above it is clear that the difference between my preliminary task and actual product is obvious, as I have developed my skills from producing the college magazine to including key codes and conventions in my actual music magazine which where significantly lacking in my college magazine.
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