When creating their preliminary school magazine cover, the author did not have much awareness of how to design an effective magazine cover. Their cover used too many colors and stretched images. In progressing to their music magazine cover, the author learned to use fewer colors that complement each other, avoid stretching images, limit fonts, make the image take up the entire cover, and match image and font colors for better visual appeal. They also learned about effective content page layout, linking the style to the cover, and using a limited number of images and fonts.

1. Question 7
Looking back to your preliminary task (the school
magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in
the progression from it to full product?

2. Magazine Cover Page

3. Analysis
When I created my preliminary task I did not have much awareness in how to
create a front cover of a magazine. My front cover for the preliminary task was
quite colourful and had a huge variety of different colours such as red green
blues and pink whereas on my music magazine cover I used minimal colours
and the colours gelled well together.
What else I have learned is that:
• You have to use the original image, not stretch images
• Use a maximum of 4 colours
• Have a consistency with the font type only use 3 different fronts
• Image takes up the whole of the front cover
• Image and colour of fonts match
• Text not too large and covering the person on the front covers face
• Bright colours on dark backgrounds are more eye-catching
• The layout of images and text

4. Magazine Contents Page

5. Analysis
When I created the contents page for my preliminary task magazine I was not
to sure on how the lay out should be were the title should be and how the
contents page should be laid out and how many images should be on the front,
I also did not know that their should be a consistency through the magazine
cover and front page. When I created my music magazine I had done more
research into eh layout of magazines and made mine look more professional
and like an ideal magazine contents page.
What else I have learned is that:
• Layout of images and texts
• Font sizes which should be used
• How many fonts should be used maximum of 2
• How many images should be used maximum of 5 (small images)
• Layout of the contents within the magazine
• The colour scheme should link to the front cover