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1. Question 7
What have you learnt from the progression from the preliminary to the main
task?
This is my preliminary task compared to the real task.

2. As youcan see,mymaintask looksfar more realisticandbetterthanmypreliminarytask.A lotof
factors contributedtothisincluding:
Research
Before Iproducedmyreal taskI put a lot of planningandresearchintoit. Includingresearchingabout
existingpopmagazinesandanalyzinghow theymake theirmagazinesandwhatmakesthemgoodand
attractingto the audience.Where asduringmyproductionof the preliminarytask,Ididn’treally
researchintoschool magazinesandwhatmakestheminterestingforthe targetaudience.Whichiswhy
it lookedquite unprofessional.
Quark
Duringmy productionof the school magazine,Iwasn’texperiencedinusingquarkandas youcan see on
the bottomright handcorner of the front cover,I wasunable toremove the white box frombehindthe
school website. Howeverduringmyproductionof the popmagazine,Ihadgainedsome basic
experience onhowtoadd and remove coloursfrombehindwritingandimagesandtherefore resulting
ina more attractive lookingfrontpage.
Fonts
WhenI made my school magazine,Ihadno knowledge of there beingsitesonline where youcan
downloaddifferent,more professional lookingfontsthanthe basiconesfoundonthe fontslist.Whichis
why,as youcan see Ihad a boringlookingfontasmy mastheadformy frontcoverand a veryodd
lookingtitle formycontentspage.WhenIstartedmakingmypop magazine,Ifoundoutthat youcan
infactdownloaddifferentfontsonline whichwill fitthe genre of yourmagazine ratherthanusing
commonones.
Cameraquality
WhenI producedmyschool magazine,Iwas oblivioustothe factthat usinga low qualitycameracould
make a big difference inhowthe magazine endsup.Whichiswhythe picture onmy school magazine
lookslowqualityandveryunprofessional.WhenImade mypopmagazine Idecidedtouse a highquality
camera andother factorssuch as a brighterroomin orderto create a more professional look.Ialsotold
the people topose ratherthan takinga picture of someone satdown.