The student has made progress on several tasks for creating a magazine, including adding layers to work, learning layout and photo editing tools, understanding different formats and genres, taking studio photos, finding an angle to appeal to rock fans, writing articles in the proper genre style, and creating effective headlines. The most difficult aspects were constructing the magazine cover, contents page, and articles while considering textures, tones, impressions and feel, and piecing together individual sections so that pictures, text, and parts fit cohesively across the magazine, which required extensive planning.

5. PROGRESS:
Since my pre-liminary task, I have improved with adding
layers to pieces of work I am doing, I have learnt how to edit
text and pictures to make an effective layout for my
magazine, I have been used tools to cut out and create effects
on pictures, I have learnt how different forms and
conventions will affect the appeal, audience and genre of my
magazine, I have been able to learn how to take effective
(styled) pictures in a studio set-up, I have found an effective
angle for my magazine to make it appeal to fans of the rock
genre, through my extensive research and notes I have
realized how an article of this genre should be written and I
have been able to successfully construct bright and effective
headlines in order to attract the audience.

6. The other findings I have made are that the actual
construction of something like a magazine cover, contents
page and article is that it is predominantly difficult; you
must think about the texture, tones, impressions, effects and
general feel of the magazine as well as trying to construct it
to make an effective spread. Also, I found that trying to
piece the individual parts together when making each
section of the magazine because you had to think about
where and how pictures and text were going to be placed
and how they would fit in with the other parts of the same
piece (and the whole magazine). I found this part the most
difficult because it involved a large amount of planning to
place each individual piece of text and picture to create a
more believable and effective magazine.