Looking back at his preliminary task, the author feels he has greatly improved his skills in progressing to the final magazine product. His final draft shows a distinct increase in standard, content, and technical quality as he had a better understanding of Photoshop. For example, he added important details like barcodes and email addresses that were missing originally. Through further research on magazine conventions, the author was able to design a more professional looking magazine by laying out the content better and including typical magazine elements. Feedback from a focus group also helped ensure the magazine would appeal to its target audience.

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

2. Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have learnt a lot and developed
my skills a significant amount. Looking at the difference between my
preliminary and final draft you can clearly see a district increase in standard,
content and technical qualities, as I had a wider knowledge of Photoshop it
was a lot easier to improve my final product.

3. As you can see in my preliminary task the style is very unsophisticated, and the writing
is just randomly placed on the page. Also I was missing important thing, for example
on my front cover I was missing things like barcodes and emails, which are now added
in. So now as I have better Photoshop skills and have researched magazines more I
have been able to make my magazine look more professional by laying it out better
and adding in all the details that would be on a magazine.
Added
barcode
Email
address
Title in a
better place.
Better quality
photo
Used more
convention e.g.
pulled quote.

4. When designing my front page, content page and double page spread I used the
knowledge I have now learnt from other magazines codes and conventions, which has
improved the overall quality of my magazine as it now looks more professional. So as I
added more quality's which are normally seen in magazines so it looked more
professional e.g. title at the top, studio taken photo’s and writing layed out better, and
as I now have a focus group I have been able to ask them what they like which means
it will be more reliable because they are them same age and gender as my focus
group.
Studio
taken photo
Writing layed
out better.
More
conventions
e.g. the “B”
representing
BEAT

5. I have also learn to plan better, so I knew the picture was the
most important part now because it draws in the most attention
so I made sure I got that right first. I had also learnt that the title
was also important so I did that second and then added in the
other details afterwards, and as I now have my focus group I
could ask them as they represent my target group and they could
tell me if I did anything I didn’t like.