Preliminary Task
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn in the progression from it to the full product.

Comparing the two magazine front covers together, i think that i have learnt allot. I have learnt how to use photoshop better and how to add different colours and effects to different pictures. I also learnt how to use different fonts better, the colours of them. I also used photoshop better by putting the title behind the artist, and being able to copy the image of the title onto the new document. I thought i put more information on them then i did on my college magazine. I learnt that the more cover lines that are interesting makes the whole front cover look better. With both of my magazines, i kept the same colours for the text, as i think it looks better if you have a colour scheme. I think i struggled more with the college magazine because you don't really have a target audience compared to the music magazine. I learnt what is best to feature on the front and how to keep referring back to the picture of the artist or the student. I used the conventions better in the music magazine, by using all the cover lines, headlines and also referring back to pages numbers. With the college magazine i didn't refer to any page numbers and it all looks boring because i only use two colours, if i used one more colour then i think it would look slightly better. With my college magazine, i didn't use a bar code, put a price on it, date or website to go too. On the other hand with the music magazine i was more creative with the layout of my page, but still following conventions. I used a cover line just above the XYX title. I added more excitement to it as well, in the college magazine i tried to do that with "interview with the teachers" but when i decided to add suspense with the music magazine i had things that everyone would want to know. I think it was good to be able to do the preliminary task because it allowed me to get the basics of how to start the magazine cover and i learnt the basic conventions of a front cover too. It also gave me an outlook on what looks good and what didn't.