This document summarizes what the author learned from creating a school magazine preliminary task and progressing to a full music magazine product. The author notes that images were a weakness in the school magazine but were improved for the music magazine by using well-focused, appropriate images that related to stories. Fonts and text were also improved by choosing "cool" and "edgy" styles rather than childish fonts for the school task. Overall, the progression helped the author learn how to create higher quality images and design elements for a professional-looking magazine product.

1. 5:How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience
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2. Bold title, catchy
name, clear Using a
font, easy to read competition
on the front
draws the
-Starting with the reader in
word ‘best’ attracts
the reader.
- 3 page headings
each side, makes it
even and looks
neater/symmetrical ‘We’ makes it
sound more
personal. And
trustworthy
-
Background and shirt
match, housestyle is the
same
throughout, pink, white
& black. It makes the
magazine recognizable
and isn't to over the top.

3. - the KOKO heading is
obviously the same as
the one on the front The lines/box make it a
cover, no magazines bit easier to read, with
ever display their
the main stories outside
magazine title in a
different appearance. the box as they are
supposed to hold the
most importance.
Font is
easy to
read brick
background
gives it an edgy
look which iv
have to
tried to include
include page
throughout
numbers so
the reader
can easily
locate the
storys
The image of
David Guetta -
The tshirt
matches the
The contents page follows the house style of the front cover, with colour i used, it
the colours and fonts used. i have shown two images of what the makes it more
stories feature. I used both 'the magnets' on the contents page, as attractive to look
even though Talia is the lead Dj. the readers love both of the girls. at

4. The image of the girls The questions i asked are quite
just having fun in the common for a music magazine
again the housetyle is
woods, gives it a relaxed article. They don't go to into
vibe, music magazine the same as the other depth about the girls personal
interviews are never two pages lives but ask everything the
really to serious/staged reader would want to know.
etc.
The images are of the
same quality as the
others i have used on
my front cover &
contents page i
believe the lighting
used is natural and
not to over the top
i used an image of
one of their columns for easy reading and this follows the
'previous sets' this
makes the reader conventions of a music magazine
excited and want interview, or infact most magazine
to see the girls interviews.
they love!

5. When i searched in google for
questions asked the most
throughout music magazines i
found these were being asked
most often..
How the band got started?
What there main influence music
wise is?
There personal favorites?
there dislikes?
What it is like on tour?

6. 6:What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of
Constructing This Product
what i used
powerpoint & microsoft word -microsoft is just very straightforward
to use for making notes and is goof for your first draft of everything.
Powerpoint can be quite effective if you use it properly, its great for
labelling.
fireworks - i used fireworks for making my front cover, contents &
double page spread. Because it is mainly for editing, fireworks is
fairly straight forward as i used it when studying ict. Its great for
cropping images and helps attempt the professional look.
memory stick - i used my memory stick for transferring work from
home to school etc. I would not rely on this again as i lost one of the
memory stick which was a big hassle. Resulting in taking all the
photos again.

7. mac computer & laptops - probably one of the most annoying thing of
this project, was only having a mac at home. Which includes none of the
vital software for creating the magazines! most of my work had to be
completed at school
Web Browsers - Web browsers arewhat makes it possible to see
everything online! The whole project involved usuploading our work to
the Internet and allowing it to be seen and read by others and the web
browser made this possible.
instagram - random app on my iphone but loved how it made my
images look!
what i have learnt
- don't rely on a memory stick for storing work
- Mac computers are not a good idea to use for these projects!

8. School front cover

9. School contents page

10. Music magazine
front cover

11. Music magazine contents page

12. Music magazine, Double page spread

13. 7 - Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task (The School Magazine
Task), What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression
From It To Full Product
1. My main problem from the school magazine project were my
images. They al look very rushed and the quality is terrible, i
believe my music magazine images were a big approvement and
display well focused and appropriate images. The images used
on the school contents page were pretty irrelivant and seem to
be floating with no meaning. The two images i used on my music
magazine were linked to the stories inside.
2. The font used on the school cover and contents page is very
childish. I tried to make the fonts and texts i used on my music
magazine appropriate and chose to use 'cool' and 'edgy font and
language