Within my preliminary task, I ensured that I used basic codes and conventions but my magazine looked amateurish with too much color. For my main task, I paid more attention to how I laid out my magazine so that it had a more professional look and feel. My preliminary front cover was also very basic, but for my main task I spent more time arranging the cover to better represent the genre. Additionally, I have greatly improved at using technology like Photoshop and Quark to design my magazine more professionally instead of basic, by carefully using techniques in Photoshop and having help to rearrange text and images in Quark according to magazine conventions.

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?

2. Codes and Conventions:
 Within my preliminary task, I ensured that I used codes and conventions which are in
magazines. However, the way I initially did it, it was very basic and looked amateur. I
used a lot of colour and didn’t think about how it impacted the look and feel of the
magazine. With my main task, I have taken more consideration with how I set out my
magazine so it had a more professional look to the magazine. On my preliminary task,
the front cover was very basic as I just added text to an image whereas now I spent
more time on how the cover is arranged and how it looks compared to real magazines
and how it represents the genre for my magazine.

3. Technology:
 I have massively improved when it comes to using technology as with the
preliminary task I took little care with how I used photoshop or quark and how it
looked. On photoshop I made sure that I used techniques carefully so that the
magazine looks more professional, instead of very basic. With Quark, I had help to
rearrange my text and images so that it followed the codes and conventions of
music magazines. Within the preliminary task, I tried to use all I had been shown
in my contents page, but in doing so I made it look basic and amateur.