1. Q7) Looking back at
your preliminary
task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the
{
progression from it to
the full product?

2. The colour scheme in my preliminary task
in my opinion wasn’t really as clear as it is
compared to my music magazine, I
understood this by looking at my
preliminary task so therefore I made sure
that I did not make this mistake in my
music magazine. The CVI I used for my
college magazine was the one I wanted to
use but however due to a lack of
experience and skill I was not able to make
my CVI look the best it could of looked, I
therefore improved my skills on
Photoshop by using it at home and during
frees at college to improve my knowledge
on Photoshop.
In my opinion I think that my final media product is a lot more aesthetically pleasing than my
preliminary task. I used Photoshop CS5 for both my preliminary task and my final media product
however, in my preliminary task I did not really have experience on Photoshop so I didn’t
understand most of the features which therefore limited the aesthetic side of my front cover. I used
a very dull and boring font for my front cover of my preliminary task. I thought that the CVI did
what a CVI is supposed to do which is to be eye catching but in order to achieve this I had to add
different adjustments to the image in Photoshop. In comparison to my main final media product I
ensured that my CVI made a statement by making it the first thing that my audience saw when
looking at my front cover, I also ensured that my font wasn’t boring and dull which in my opinion
made my front cover look a lot more professional compared to my preliminary task front cover.
When using Photoshop for my CVI again I changed the adjustments to make my image
aesthetically pleasing.

3. In my opinion I think that my contents page was lacking professionalism and the layout
was poor, I didn’t think it was informative and it didn’t look good. To make sure I didn’t
have the same problem in my main task I researched other NME magazine’s and saw
what type of articles they include in their content’s pages and what I could do to make
my contents page look professional. I prefer my music magazine massively to my
college magazine as it just looks so much better than my preliminary contents page. I
used alleys in my contents page for my main task so that my contents page looked
organised as well as aesthetically pleasing.