Question Seven

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

From creating my music magazine I have learnt lots of things such as:

• Pop magazine codes and conventions
• The main feature story should stand out from everything on the page
• That it is best to have three or four colours and for a pop magazine they should be bright and stand out
• To keep a house style
• How to make a Double Page Spread

I have developed many skills as well whilst making my music magazine such as:

• My skills on photoshop. I have developed my knowledge on how to do certain things and different shortcuts to do these things.
• Cutting the backgrounds out of images
• Adding borders
• Adding shapes
• Adding text

If I was to do my college magazine again I would change most things about it, I would change:
Front Cover:

• The Picture, I feel like if I got a picture of two students it would of made the front cover look more friendly.
• I would of changed the main feature story to something which gets the readers more involved.
• The colours, you can't see the blue, the green blends with the grass and the read isn't clear.
• I would of added a skyline, I looks like a poster
• I would of spread the feature stories out
• I would get rid of the circle around the plug.

Content Page:

• I would change the images and make sure they are images which feature on the front cover.
• I would change the layout completely as I think it doesn't look professional and it doesn't follow codes and conventions
• I would change the colours as it isn't very clear
• I would make sure all the images are the same size

I found it helpful doing a preliminary task because when I started my music magazine I had a better understanding of what I was doing and what I needed to do to improve it. It also gave me a idea of what grade boundary I was working under.

In order to develop my music magazine I developed the understanding of what a pop magazine should look like here is what I found:

• The mast head will always stand out
• The main feature story must link to the main image
• The main image should be someone in a band or an artist who is popular and plays pop music
• Pop magazine are mainly aimed towards girls. I thought about this when choosing my colour scheme and my main image model
• The colours should be bright and stand out