In the progression from the preliminary task to the full product, the student learned how to create a more professional-looking magazine. For the preliminary magazine, the front cover lacked a memorable model, but for the full product the student included an eye-catching model and edited the image more carefully. The student also familiarized themselves more with magazine conventions like adding photography and stories to the contents page to make it more appealing, taking influence from NME. Overall, the student feels they developed skills in creating a magazine that resembles professional publications like NME or Vibe, rather than the preliminary task which resembled a basic school magazine.

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 to my preliminary task I can see that I have learnt a lot.
In my opinion I have learnt how to make a professional looking
magazine and I see that as a great accomplishment. While for my
preliminary magazine I decided that I did not need to have a
discernible model for my front cover (as shown below), I realized the
massive error of my ways when researching other magazines and put
in a memorable model who I felt would draw audience attention
easily. Aside from that I also edited the image for my front cover a lot
more than I did for my preliminary front cover as I got rid of any
blemishes on the model and also darkened the area around him
which is in contrast to the little to no editing that I did on my
preliminary front cover.

3. • I also feel that I have familiarized my self to a more succinct
degree with the proper conventions of a music magazine.
While on my original contents page I do have any puff text or
even an image behind the page numbers it. To make my
contents page more appealing I have added my own
photography and a host of interesting stories around it in a
similar vain to NME who I took direct influence from as I felt
that as a hybrid magazine I needed to have bit more of a rock
look.

4. Overall,
• I feel that I have honed a lot of the skills that
were just developing when I started making
my preliminary task and through finishing my
print media project I have managed to create
a professional looking magazine in the same
vain as NME or Vibe as opposed to the budget
school magazine that my preliminary task
looked like.