Looking back at their preliminary task front cover compared to their main task front cover, the author feels their skills have progressed. Specifically, they improved their use of color, fonts, and image positioning. For the preliminary task, the color was dull, fonts were boring, and the image was placed directly in the middle. However, for the main task the colors are brighter and more vibrant, fonts are bolder, and the image is placed on the right side leaving space for text. Overall, this project allowed the author to enhance their Photoshop skills and gain a better understanding of how to develop effective pop magazine features to draw in audiences.

1. Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From looking back at my preliminary task, it is clear that my skills
have progressed in producing media products. At the time of
making my front cover during my preliminary task, I was proud of
it and thought it was an effective piece of media, however,
comparing it to my front cover of the main task I now think
differently. My front cover now, is more professional looking and
more effective to attract attention.

2. Preliminary Task Main Task

3. One area I think I have improved the most regarding the difference between my preliminary and main task is the
use of colour. I think the colour on my preliminary is dull and boring, it is not exciting or enticing in any way. I
believe on my main task the colours will draw the target audience in. It is more bright and vibrant and fits the
theme of the magazine well.
I believe the fonts I have used on my main task are more bold and eye catchy, in comparison to my preliminary
task whereby the fonts are quite dull and boring. They dont particularly stand out or lure the audience in any way.
I think the positioning of my main image has improved. In my preliminary task it is placed directly in the middle,
making it difficult to place the sell-lines around it. Where as my main task front cover is placed on the right hand
side, leaving space in the left hand side to fit my sell-lines. It is also a convention of a pop magazine to have the
image placed on the right hand side.

4. Overall, this project has allowed me to enhance my Photoshop
skills for a beginners standard to a high standard in order to
create an effective pop magazine pieces. On top of this, it had
allowed me to gain a better understanding of how to develop
features of a pop magazine onto my own. Not in a basic way, in
an effective, eye catching way, to draw in the audience. By
making my own Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page
Spread, I have enhanced my knowledge of Pop magazines and
have applied the correct content, layout, fonts and colour
scheme a typical Pop magazine would have, in order to be
successfully appealing to its target audience. The skills I have
learnt are useful and I will be able to reffer back to them in the
future.