The author learned several lessons about making their magazine look more professional when progressing from a school magazine to a music magazine. They learned to include exciting tags and language on the cover to engage audiences, and to place the masthead above images rather than over them. They also learned to align all text on the contents page straight for easier and more appealing reading.

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

2.  My preliminary task, being the school front cover
and contents page I have learnt a lot about the
process of making my magazine look more
professional.
 The first would be learning the importance of
tags and exciting language to attract the
audience and help them to see the stories in
which my magazine would hold, my school
magazine looked too plain and it gave no real
information, in my music magazine I included
three tags on the side, a topline and also a list of
bands that were featured at the bottom of the
cover, this helped to engage the audience.

3.  The school logo was placed over the top of the
splash image and this looked unprofessional and
messy, in my music magazine I placed the
masthead over the top of the topline images
allowing it to be seen clearly and making the
magazine look more professional.
 For the contents page of my school magazine, I
titled my writing in different directions which I
discovered looked unprofessional and messy, so
for my music magazine I lined up my text and
made sure all of it was straight in order for it to
look better and make it easy and more appealing
to read.