Evaluation of my preliminary task vs final production.

1. Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
School magazine front cover Music magazine front cover
My frontcoverfor mypreliminaryproductionwasextremelybasic;ithada lack of fonts,whereasonmyfinal productionIused
a mixture of fontswhichrelate tothe genre,hip-hop.Iknow thisdue tomyresearchintoprofessional hip-hopmagazinesandI
have takenideasfromthem.My preliminaryproduction’smainimage forthe frontcoverwasn’tcropped,itwassimplypasted
ontothe page,thismeantitdidn’thave the lookof a realisticprofessional magazine.Formyfinal musicmagazine production,I
croppedmyimage and useda background.Thisgivesitmore of a professional lookaswell asmakingthe magazine standout.
Furthermore,itallowsthe readerstoclearlysee the coverlineswhereasonthe preliminarytask,theyaren’tveryclearand
certainlywouldn’tstandoutoverothermagazines. The mastheadonmypreliminarytaskistoobasicand doesn’tattract
attentionwhenhavingaquicklookat it.Nobodywould take muchnotice of ‘fchnews’due tothe blandblackand white display
howeverwith‘DEAL’itstandsoutin bigboldfontand a clearcolour.There is a lack of conventionsonmypreliminarytask;for
example there isn’tamaincoverline,apuff,a skyline,anissue numberora range of fonts.All of whichare includedinmyfinal
production.MyskillsinPhotoshophave clearlyimproved,aswe cansee fromthiscomparison.