- The document reflects on the learning process from an initial preliminary magazine cover and contents page task to the full magazine product. - For the preliminary task, the document notes issues with layout, editing, color scheme, and conventions that made the work unconventional. - In creating the full magazine, the document explains how knowledge was applied to make the front cover, contents page, and other elements more conventional in terms of layout, images, fonts, and adherence to typical magazine conventions. - The process allowed the author to recognize what aspects are needed to make an effective magazine and apply those lessons from the preliminary task.

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

2. Preliminary Front cover…
Layout: The left third hasn’t been used
Mode of address: The so that isn’t conventional at all. There is
mode of address is very no main coverline, and the masthead
formal, this is a comparison could be larger and more eye-catching.
the my pop magazine cover. Overall the layout is what could be
improved on the most.
Image/photography/Mise-en-
Colour: The colours are scene: The mise-en-scene was well
not very conventional and thought out; having the costume as a
there is not a consistent school uniform because it was
colour scheme like there advertising a school magazine. However
is with my pop magazine there could have been more than one
cover. image to make the front cover more
conventional.
Editing: I edited this image on my phone, however with Font: The font is sans serif which is effective.
my front cover image for my pop magazine I edited it on However it was font from word, so it didn’t
PicMonkey which has more advanced editing tools. take much thought or creation.

3. Preliminary Contents page draft…
The draft layout of the contents page is
nothing like a real contents page and very
unconventional. The only thing I was
planning on including was an image of the
front cover, the numbers with headings and
an image. This wouldn’t have been very
eye-catching and the audience wouldn’t
have found it very appealing because there
isn’t enough content. The font is very
boring and plain, however it is bold which
would have attracted the audience. The
image itself was good, however pointlessly
placed in the corner of the page which isn’t
conventional at all. And finally I would need
to make my headline ‘This issue…’ a lot
more bolder, brighter, and bigger, so it
stood out and made the page look more
effective.

4. Front cover…
Mode of address: The mode of Layout: Very cluttered
address I have used is very compared to my preliminary task.
conventional for a pop magazine. It contains a lot more
Phrases such as ‘Facebook content, and the left-third is used
frenzy’ and ‘Twitter mania’ will more, to attract the target
relate to the audience because audience.
they are interested in social
networking.
Image/photography/Mise-en-
Colour: The colours of
red, yellow, and white are very
scene: The image itself is very
conventional for a pop conventional for a pop magazine. The
magazine, whereas my camera angle of a mid-shot is very
preliminary task didn’t contain a effective unlike the close-up I used for the
lot of conventional colours. I am preliminary task. I changed the colour of
also using a constant colour the models hair, which considered the
scheme Mise-en-scene of the image.
Editing: I edited my images on Font: The font used on my cover is sans
PicMonkey, and PhotoShop, whereas
serif. I used this on my preliminary task
for the preliminary task I only edited
however I have used it more effectively here.
images on my phone image effects.

5. Contents page…
Mode of address: The mode of
address is conventional because of Layout: The layout of my contents
the informal language used, such as page is very conventional compared
‘LOL’ and ‘Boy advice.’ This will appeal to my preliminary task. I have put the
to my target audience, unlike the main headings at the bottom of the
mode of address used on my other page, rather than just placing them
contents page. randomly on the page.
Typical conventions: The
typical conventions on a contents
page are the heading, the image,
the ‘features’ at the bottom, the Image/photography/Mise-en-
letter from the editor and the scene-The image of the editor is
picture of the front cover. Not
also added on this contents page.
many of these typical conventions
Whereas I didn’t have this on my
were used on my preliminary
preliminary task contents.
contents page.
Colour: The colours are organised and very
conventional for a pop magazine. The colours I Font: The font is sans serif, like my preliminary task.
would have used on my preliminary task However the fonts are much more conventional and
contents were not very eye-catching and appealing on this contents page.
appealing.

6. How I have progressed and what I have learned.
I believe I have progressed a lot during the course of making my magazine. I
now know how to make a magazine conventional and appealing to a certain
type of target audience. I know how to edit images to make them
effective, and I also know how to layout a front cover, contents page, and
double page spread effectively. In Question 7 I have learned that during the
production of my preliminary task, I didn’t know how to make
layout, colour, and mode of address effective. I didn’t know how to use
PicMonkey, so my images were poorly edited, making them unconventional
for a magazine. I also didn’t know how to make colour and fonts effective in
my preliminary task. I now Know what aspects are needed for a
conventional, effective magazine. I applied the knowledge I gained from
doing my preliminary task, and took these skills with me when completing
my pop magazine.