The document summarizes the learning and improvements from the author's preliminary school magazine task to their final music magazine product. Key points include: developing a consistent color scheme and brand identity; adding more cover lines in an intentional layout; using appropriate tools like the magnetic lasso to refine images; including typical magazine elements like editorials; and choosing fonts, colors and styles more fitting to engage the target audience. The author demonstrates gaining a deeper understanding of magazine composition and layout through research, and applying those lessons to create a more professional and appealing final product.

1.  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

2. Front Pages

3. Preliminary Task Front CoverBefore I began creating my school magazine I was already aware that cover lines were necessary and so I created a few and haphazardly placed them on the front cover without paying any in-depth attention to its positioning.

4. It is evident that I lacked the ability to precisely cut around her hair in order to enhance realism. In addition I used the ‘lasso tool’ to cut around her, oblivious to the effectiveness of the ‘magnetic lasso tool’, which through using, I would have been able to refine certain areas.

5. Furthermore, as I had not browsed and conducted research on authentic front covers I was not aware of the font style, colours or even the size in which would be appropriate for the text to be. There are far too little cover lines on the page, which, in effect, make the magazine cover look too spacious and empty. Also, s makes it look as if the magazine consists of a limited range of features, and so the lack of cover lines may marginalise or decrease the amount of people who would want to read it as the displayed features may not appeal to them.

6. Although I did know about adding effects to text, I believe I misused them as the colour of the cover lines are not bold enough and somewhat blend in with the background, ultimately diverting attention elsewhere, similarly, the font is too small and each additional cover line is too close to each other.

7. The image of the ‘model does not reflect the concept of the article, as well as the fact that the main cover line should be the most prominent after the masthead, however, on my preliminary task the main cover line does not stand out and so is not instantly recognisable as the main article of this magazine. The font would have needed to be larger and perhaps have more effects applied to it in order to allow readers to immediately know what the main feature of the school magazine is.

8. Correspondingly, there is no regular colour scheme applied, apart from the minor similarity between the colour off the girls top, and the masthead and so makes the magazine look extremely unprofessional.