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. I decided to use cover lines in both my prelim and main task, they way I changed the two was
that I made my main task cover lines look a lot more professional and more tidy so that it gave my magazine a more higher class
look to it. I also changed the font I used from my prelim on my main task, I felt that my prelim font didn’t have enough professional
elements to it so I had to go for a more smart and aesthetically pleasing font. Lastly I changed the colours completely, I didn’t
particularly like the colours I used on my prelim front page because they were too similar and my model didn’t stand out against the
background. I went for more intimidating colours such as black because it emphasised the genre of my magazine as it is rap so I
needed to include colours that linked with this theme.

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. The quality of images
between my prelim contents and main contents page have changed a lot, I felt that my prelim didn’t have that
high quality look that I wanted, it lacked in quality massively, I changed the way I angled my photo’s to give them
a more professional look to them. The comparison with my prelim contents page and main task contents has a
massive difference, my prelim had no structure or professionalism, I changed this completely in my main task, I
added alleys, page numbers etc. to achieve this and I believe I have .