2. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?
My preliminary front cover was
quite had too much empty space. I
addressed this issue when making
my cover for the main task.
I did not put a lot of effort into the
planning stage for the cover of my
preliminary task. I didn’t research
magazines of a similar genre. In
the main task I made sure I made
sufficient research into similar
magazines such as NME and Q.
this has helped the professionalism
of my work.
I also didn’t put a lot of though into
the colour scheme for the
preliminary task. For the main task
I chose the colours carefully. My
aim was for the colours to have the
right constitutions, work well
I realised that I should have a together and to stand out clearly The positioning of my coverlines
quote or something to go alongside form the background. and barcode, in my main task, is
the main cover line. more typical of a real magazine.
3. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?
As you can clearly see, there is a
huge contrast between the quality
of my contents page I produced for
the main task and the preliminary
task.
The main reason my final contents
page is so much better is because I
made enough research beforehand
into contents pages that NME and
Q produce. I tried to use the old
NME contents page as a template.
During the course I have learnt
about the typical codes and
conventions that magazines use to
create a successful product. I feel I
have incorporated these into my
own product to replicate the
success.
This contents page is quite plain An important reason behind the Unlike my preliminary contents
with too many empty spaces. It is difference in quality is down to my page, for the main task the page is
obvious that I had not made proper confidence with Adobe InDesign. filled with text and pictures.
plans before creating it. During the preliminary task I had
not previously used the software
and wasn’t comfortable with using
it. Over the course I have grown
used to the software.
