1. Question 4
Looking back at your ‘Preliminary Task’ what do you feel you have learned in the
progression from it to the full product?
Front Page
In the preliminary project I was less aware
of how a magazine cover should look and
the conventions that went with them. The
College magazine was the first project for
Media I has done, considering that I didn’t
taken this subject for GCSE I think that it
turned out quite well for the first time. In
the preliminary task payed more attention
to the conventional methods on the
placement of the articles for example I put
a left third on this magazine where as on
my ‘full project’ I had a right third. I feel
that I have learned how better to make a
magazine interesting and I also learned
how to work the programs and technology
when I did the preliminary task I became
more comfortable using QuarkXPress and
the cameras that I used to take the photos
for the covers and side pictures. I think I
also developed a style through the two
tasks.
In the progression to the ‘Full Project’ I
think I learned about the layout of the
front cover this helped me to make a more
professionally set out cover although if I
were to do this project again I would have
added more articles tot eh front cover and
filled out the page more to make it look
busy. Like I had done in the ‘preliminary
task’ however in the progression to the
main task I learned that images can be
used as well as article titles this is the
reason I did not put much writing on the
front cover although I now see that I
should have put more articles on the page
to make it look busier and more
interesting as well as giving the reader a
better idea of what the articles are about.
Preliminary
Task
Full Product

2. Contents Page
In the preliminary contents page I wrote a
lot more and had a lot less images I also
had less pages shown in the index and I
think went a bit too much into detail
writing a bit about every article title. In
the main project I had a lot less writing and
more images I think this worked better in a
sense however more writing under the
images could have been better and given
the reader more of an idea of what the
articles were about. Also in the main
project I had more sub headings in the
index this would have been good as the
audience would be able to pinpoint
something that might interest them at the
time.
In general I learned a lot about layout and
that the contents page should have more
than just articles and explanations on the
page I have looked at this issues and added
some extra features to my contents page
like more subheadings images adverts and
addresses for the magazine I think that
learning about adding extra features has
helped me to progress my magazine and
make it better than the preliminary task.

3. Double Page Spread
I did not do a double page spread for the preliminary task, however I did learn a great
deal about layout through the other two parts of the project for example the large
image and the quote were aspects that I have learned in the layout of DPS’s. I f I were
to do this project again I would have made the image cover both sides of the mage
and written a more interesting article that might appeal to more people.