The student has learned significant improvements in magazine design between their preliminary and final tasks. For the preliminary magazine cover, key elements like a bold title, strap line, and attractive photography were missing. The contents page also lacked elements essential for magazines like a large cover image, magazine title, graphics, and detailed listings of page numbers and subtitles. Through research and practice, the student improved their understanding of magazine forms and conventions, and their final tasks demonstrated mastery of elements like font choice, image quality, and layout that create a professionally designed magazine.

1. Q7 Lookingbackat yourpreliminarytask,
what do youfeel youhavelearnt in the
progressionfrom it to the full product?

2. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
(contents)
• I have made several improvements in my work since my preliminary task, as
I would expect because I have learnt a lot about the forms, conventions, and
have done lots of research since then.

3. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
• On the left is my preliminary task magazine front cover and on the right the
right is my final one. I can see from this that I am missing many of the
necessary forms and conventions in the first trail one. It is clear that I wasn’t
aware of what is needed at the start.

4. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
• Firstly I have recognised that my title of my trail mag is not bold enough, I
have faded it as an effect but actually this is a flaw as it makes it less eye
catching and memorable. Another major point is the lack content, its
missing a strap line and information.
I would also say that
from a graphics
perspective that it
lacks a lot of things.
The fonts are
inconsistent and the
colours are not eye
catching enough. Mt
final magazine is
much better in terms
of that looks
attractive and inviting
to the eye.

5. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
• The photography is another element that has significantly improved, I now
know that the cover image should be large, attractive as it is one of the
main focuses for the reader. The cover image should really be facing the
reader as is eye catching also the quality of the image makes a difference.
My skills using the
software have also
improved which has
allowed me to do
different things to
style of the magazine
that I couldn’t do
before. Specifically
the softening of the
images to get rid of
any blemishes.

6. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
(contents)
• My preliminary contents page has
the most drastic changes, as you can
see it really doesn’t have much to it
this is from mixture of lack of time
and lack of knowledge. But it
doesn’t really have any of the forms
or conventions that are needed in a
good contents page.

7. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
(contents)
On the left is my preliminary contents page and the right is my final contents
page. There is a clear difference between them, the prelim one is missing
nearly all the key parts of a contents page, this is because I was not aware of
what I needed to create a good quality contents page.

8. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
(contents)
I have learnt since the start of the year that a main image is one of the key
factors for a contents page as it is the first thing the reader looks at when
they see the magazine and will often be the reason why the reader has
looked into the magazine. The next thing is the title, there is no magazine
title on the prelim task which makes it less attractive and most of doesn’t
enforce the reader what they are reading.
Another point that I
have leant is that to
be interesting for the
reader it needs
graphics, they are all
the colours and
shapes that give the
page the style it has.
Without these it looks
blank like my prelim
task.

9. Improvementsfrom preliminarytask.
(contents)
The main idea of the content page is to tell the reader the content of the
magazine, which although I did put some in it is no where near what a
magazine contents should be like. As you can see from the my final magazine
that I have included a lot more detail about what is inside, significantly with
page number and subtitles.
The fonts that I used on
my prelim task where not
what I would use now
because they are not
bold enough and eye
catching. The font size is
important my final
contents has specific font
sizes for certain parts
which makes it look good
on the eye and makes
you read things in certain
orders which what you
want.

10. Conclusion
• To conclude I would say that I have nearly learnt everything about forms
and conventions of magazines that are needed to create a good quality
magazine since I made my preliminary task. This is evident in my
comparisons between the two, I have identified all the things that were
missing in the prelim to the final ones and there is a lot of significant
elements missing. Particularly with my contents as it far from magazine
standard but I think that my final one shows how much how I have
improved.