The document discusses the progression from the author's preliminary task to their full music magazine product. They felt they learned a lot, as they became familiar with programs like Photoshop and InDesign through the preliminary task. This made creating the magazine less time consuming. Feedback from the preliminary task also helped improve the magazine. Specifically, the author chose darker, more serious colors and layouts for the magazine based on feedback that their college magazine was too bright and unappealing. Overall, doing the preliminary task helped the author learn skills but they also felt some aspects of the magazine were rushed due to time constraints.

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

2. Looking back at the preliminary task I feel that I have progressed a
lot because I didn’t know how to use certain programmes when I first
started but when I did my music magazine I was already familiar with
them this helped me a lot.
I learnt how to use different cameras,photoshop,indesign,illustrator
and the feedback I got from my preliminary task was different to my
magazine which shows that I have changed over the production and I
have progressed.
This makes it less time consuming because what we did in the
preliminary task helped with what I did in my music magazine.

3. My college and music magazine.

4. Masthead
Preliminary
• Use of many colours.
• Use of difficult font to
read.
• Looks upfront too
much action.
Music magazine
• Looks more serious
• Use of dark colours
• More intriguing
• Use of skylines
• Appeals to people more.

5. Preliminary
Contents page
Music magazine.
• Use of double page spread
• Too many bright colours
• Images placed everywhere
• Not that serious
• Pictures placed accordingly
• Use of double page
• Dark colours looks real
• Something you may see in a real
magazine.

6. Photography
My photography has improved from the
preliminary task because of the different
settings and cameras that I got to use.
I thought learning to use a DSLR
camera was more beneficial than
using our phones that are not as
good as a DSLR camera and wont
have the same effect of doing it in
a studio.
The use of the backdrop also
shows seriousness and adds an
atmosphere of entertainment for
others.
• Text is more layed
out rather than
college magazine
• Consistent colours
• Dark colours
• More appealing
• Looks real

7. Colour scheme
My colour scheme was all over the place when I did my college
magazine, when I saw it I couldn’t concentrate on it because it was
all in my face and I couldn’t concentrate on looking at it and feeling
like I wanted to read it that’s why I went for darker colours on my
music magazine.
My music magazine consisted of navy blue, maroon, white and black
which made it look more serious and I felt that I could read it unlike
my college magazine and it looked serious and appealed to me more
than my college magazine which was good.

8. Final summary
Overall I feel that I did do better in my music magazine and doing the
preliminary task helped with that, because I got the chance to learn
stuff before hand rather than learning things and creating my music
magazine at the same time.
However I felt that some aspects were rushed which meant that not
all of my music magazine was as perfect as it could be and I learnt
this from my preliminary task because I rushed my contents page but
that didn’t help me when producing my music magazine because I
felt the cover page was the most important aspect.