Through creating a music magazine, the author improved their technical skills in areas like layout, design, and photography. The preliminary magazine had limited color, images, and poor content organization. For the final magazine, the author incorporated more variety in color, additional photos, and learned how to structure information clearly. The quality of images also improved through better lighting, posing, and use of warmer tones that would appeal more to audiences.

1. Looking back I my preliminary task, I have improved my use of technical codes. Firstly the colour scheme is very different as my music magazine incorporates more variety in colour, making it more interesting, whereas my preliminary task had one main colour which was pink making it quite dull. There was also no other pictures apart from the main image, which made the product look less professional and very uninteresting to the reader. A significant part of my progression was learning about the journalism involved in the creation of the double page spread, for example the interview with the “pop star” . Through research and analysis of other interviews with artists, I have learnt what type of questions which are typically found in a music magazine. The contents page from my preliminary task was very poor, again it was all one colour and lacked content, however it was only a moch up. Through creating one for my music magazine, I have learnt how to include relevant details and split the information into sections, to make it clearer to the consumer. Although I had included an editors letter, it did not have a picture and the general quality was not very good. The quality of the images have also improved as I learned more about lighting, position, pose and therefore produced a higher quality image. For example in my main task, the lighting on the models face is much lighter and therefore produces a clearer image. The preliminary photograph also looks quite cold because the lighting is dark, therefore repelling audiences.