By merging images and editing colors to look connected, the author learnt to make elements appear from the same magazine, though their preliminary work lacked this. It was difficult to choose readable color combinations but they improved for the final piece. Magazines avoid blank spaces and keep content varied, which the author's final product mimicked through attention to magazine conventions and inclusion of basic magazine features.

1. I learnt that by merging the images into others by colour and editing everything looked connected and like it was from the same magazine. On my preliminary task I believe I didn't achieve this. I also found that it was difficult to find a combination of colours which where easy to read however as you can see I managed to develop this skill when creating my final piece. It is important not to have to many blank spaces on the page as it looks dull and suggests the content may be similar. Xclusive! draws in the eye and is jam packed. I believe when producing my final product I was more aware of the forms and conventions of magazines therefore could interpret this in my magazine. I also managed to include the basic features of magazines e.g barcode bold subheadings and a collection of interesting images.