From creating a preliminary magazine cover to the final product, the author learned many editing skills. They studied various magazines to help with the color scheme and layout of their cover. Initially, basic fonts and colors were used without reference to other magazines. However, the final cover has a red, blue, and yellow color scheme influenced by pop music magazines. The author also learned to use shapes and layering to create borders around images, making the cover more professional. Overall, the author applied more advanced magazine design conventions to the final cover and additional pages.

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?
Prelim magazine cover Magazine cover
During the time from when I first created my prelim magazine cover to my main magazine cover, I have
picked up many editing skills along the way. I have studied a variety of magazines that had a large input into
helping me create my main magazine cover to this day. I studied magazines such as ‘we love pop’ as pop was
my genre of magazine and this helped with the colour scheme and the actual lay out of the page.
In my first magazine cover, I was using very basic text fonts and sizes. The magazine did not really have a
colour scheme as I just chose the colours off the top of my head without looking at any magazine. On the other
hand, my magazine now has a colour scheme, which I followed. This being red, blue and yellow. The pop
magazines that influenced me, all used bright colours and I chose to follow this.
Next thing I learnt was how to use shapes and drag the layers behind each other that enabled me to have a
border around multiple images on my main magazine photo. I also learnt how to edit a picture correctly using
photo shop that made the picture instantly become more professional. All in all, I have used many more
advanced magazine conventions for my main cover and this applies for my other two pages, the contents page
and the double page spread.