3. Comparison of front cover
• Although my front cover for my preliminary task happens to have many of the
conventions required from a front cover such as plugs, pulls masthead etc.
However the layout of my images have not been thought out its been put on
the page with no thought making it look odd. My typography was all in different
fonts distracting for the readers and the colors for my text were black and
Wight clashes with the colors of my background making the page look to busy
and distressing.
• When taking in to consideration all the errors of my first magazine I have lent
to thoroughly do my market research allowing me to know exactly what I want
from my front cover , a key issue again with the front cover was timing my
student magazine was my first draft where as on my main task I constantly
made different drafts modifying it even the masthead i went through a list of
15 names narrowed it down to five and designed it in different Gothic styles
and picked on out of it. where as I didn't go through that process wit the first
on which taught me persistence is the key it also enhanced my Photoshop
skills as you can see I barely could use it when I started the preliminary task
now in able to do the basics.
4. contents page
• The first contents page is my
preliminary task as you can see that i
have done more research for my main
task i was persistence and was
constantly redrafting it to make sure that
it presented all the conventions of a
rock magazine. In my main protect i
present many conventions such as
issue date, cover date, regulars etc all
of which i did not include in my
preliminary task. I only did one draft of
my preliminary task and submitted it
however this time i was not going to
make the same mistake i had made
over four drafts of my contents page. To
insure that i was perfectly happy with it.
The one thing that helped me when I
was making my contents page I was
constantly looking for examples of other
contents pages to find inspiration not
only form actual magazines but from
also other media bog's.
5. What have I learnt form my
preliminary task
• Their are many thing to which i have learnt from my preliminary task
such as how to as effective questions when doing your market
research and what different ways could you carry that out for
example survey monkey, interview question airs. I did survey
monkey and interviews because survey monkey is exposed to more
people but as i experience not everyone fills in your survey properly
so i did interviews to insure that answers are properly answered and
if they have trouble answering a question i can prompt them rather
then them leaving it blank in a survey. I have also leant to be better
organized although i met my deadline for my preliminary all my work
was rushed not show my greatest qualities. I have become better at
research into my genre. I have drastically improved on my
Photoshop skills and my camera skills.
6. Quality of photos
• From my preliminary task I learnt that to plan each photo shoot and to consider
editing before hand as in my preliminary task I didn’t consider my mise-en-scen
properly it was set in the study area however in some of my photos some of the
student and teachers were in the way. I didn't think about what types of photos i had
wanted in fact i didn't really know what i was looking for. I didn't organize any of my
photos it was all taken spontaneously causing the quantity of it not to come out of a
higher standard. I my main task I planed my photo shoot thoroughly to the point
where I planned each posses and the camera angles I was going to use . I used a
plain background in some of them in the others I edited the background out. I also re-
took my photos a few times as I was starting each of my magazine.
Main task
Preliminary task
7. editing
• As I barely knew how to use Photoshop my images where bear and
was lacking manipulation. The furthest that I went was crop my
image. However I have learnt a lot more about Photoshop in the
process as in able to change images black and Wight, change the
colors of image for example change hair or eye color remove
unwonted parts of an image etc.
