1. 7 - Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have
learnt in progression from it to full
product?
Aaron Gannon

2. Preliminary Task

3. Cover
From feedback I got from my teacher
about this front cover was that I should
feature people on my cover as it
appeals to my audience more and is
more conventional. Due to that
feedback I featured a band on my front
cover to help attract my target
audience.
It doesn’t look particularly professional
as it has quite a dark cover and the
effect on the picture makes it look
quite rough and not what you would
expect of a professional piece and
therefore this helped me to rule out
the idea of using this kind of effect on
my cover picture.

4. Cont.
The layout of the front cover is quite conventional as the
feature picture isn’t covered or obscured by text while there is
still a good about of text on the cover for it to be informative
and bring people in. This is because I aimed to make good use
of the space I made for my self when framing the picture.
The framing of this picture was slightly off and therefore made
me think about how I should frame the pictures I take in the
final task, giving me room for text and other features.
As the picture on my preliminary task is a close up of a bass
guitar neck and the picture on my final talk was a mid 3 shot it
was hard to learn how to frame just from comparing. However
framing was thought about because of my preliminary task as
I realised how important it is.

5. Contents
My preliminary task’s contents page looks a lot
less professional than the cover as it uses an
unconventional layout as well as the pictures
looking unfinished.
The feedback I got from this was that I should
just use columns in order to make the contents
aesthetically pleasing and easier to follow.
I was also told I needed to use more pictures,
however I only actually used one in my final
contents page due to the fact I was influenced
by a Classic Rock magazine that only featured
one picture.
I wasn’t very imaginative when it came to the
creation of this contents page as it is quite
bland, and although it does stick to the
magazine theme of being quite dark and keeps
the font, it isn’t interesting to look at or read.

6. Final Product

7. Cover
The cover of my final task looks a lot more
professional and includes a lot more of the
smaller details not included in my preliminary
cover (such as bar code, slogan, publishing
company logo).
From these small details as well as the better
layout, this cover looks a lot better than the
preliminary.
The layout now has the text covering the picture.
However, this doesn’t not obscure the picture
but looks a lot better as I was able to cover both
sides of the cover as is the conventional way of a
magazine cover.
As mentioned before the picture on the cover is
a mid 3 shot, although when first taken the
people were to far apart but I was unaware of
this and therefore I had to Photoshop it so that
they were closer together.

8. Contents
As mentioned previously, I have only
used one picture in my contents page
due to the magazine I looked at when
creating the contents page.
The layout of this contents page
compared with the preliminary task is
100% different, as this one features a
website, social media links and a QR
code. A lot of things that the
preliminary contents page.
Like with the preliminary contents, I
have kept with the theme of the
magazine, using white, black and
orange. Again, this is to make the
magazine aesthetically pleasing to the
audience.