The student learned several important lessons when progressing from their preliminary magazine cover design task to the final product. For the preliminary task, they created a simple cover with a photo of a friend against a wall that lacked visual appeal. For the final cover, they took photos in specific settings to catch the reader's attention. The student also learned to use design elements like colored boxes behind text to make subheadings clearer. Overall, they learned to create a more interesting layout, effective use of color in photos, and clearer fonts to appeal to their 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? Question 7

2. My preliminary task was a practice of using InDesign before I created my final product. Here is a copy; As you can see this front cover that I first created is very simplistic compared to my current one. I took a photograph of my friend outside of my college against a wall. This is different to my final product because the photographs that I took for that were in a specific setting with different backgrounds of different areas. I have used a bold masthead but I still think this is very simplistic and doesn’t really stand out to the audience. Also the subheadings are the same, because I used a pale yellow it isn’t very clear, on my final product I overcame this problem by putting boxes behind the text so that it was more clear.

3. Since doing my preliminary task I have learnt many things such as; I needed a more interesting image for my front cover, something that would catch the reader’s attention . I needed to edit my photographs using Photoshop to make a more effective use of colour. I needed to use a more interesting font on the pages, something that stood out and was clear to read

4. I also knew that when I was creating my final product I needed to create a more interesting layout on all three pages, something that was clear and easy to read and also something that stood out to my target audience. I wanted to create a front cover that was clear to the readers what kind of magazine it was before they even picked it up. I think that I have achieved this by using the shot of Alex with his guitar to immediately show that it is about music. Also the title ‘Vinyl’ adds to this.