For their preliminary task, the student gathered magazine cover images but did not analyze them to understand codes and conventions. For the full product, they analyzed covers, contents pages, and spreads to identify codes and conventions. They also learned proper terminology. For planning, their preliminary task included a basic contents page sketch while the full product included labeled, detailed drafts and revisions. For construction, their preliminary task involved a rough image cutout while the full product utilized Photoshop tools for a cleaner cutout and included more researched details, original fonts and photos, showing improved skills.

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. Research
• For my preliminary task I only gathered images of front covers and
contents pages of magazine. I put them onto a word document and
uploaded it to Weebly, but I did not analyse them. Due to this I could
not find the codes and conventions of the genre and so did not how
to adapt or challenge them as effectively.
• For my full product, I gathered front covers, contents pages, and
double page spread and analysed them so that I found the codes and
conventions. I also gathered a list of terminology so that I knew the
proper names.

3. Prelim task
Full product

4. Planning
• For my preliminary task, I did a sketch of the contents page and a
double page spread. I only labelled what would go where and did not
go into detail about it’s mise-en-scene. I changed the colour for some
but that was the extent. I did not know the content of what I had
labelled.
• For my full product, I did label my drafts in more detail. I labelled it
and then described what it would be. I also did two drafts after I
changed one of them because I started again, showing my progress.

5. Prelim task
Full product

6. Construction
• For my preliminary task I cut out my image with an eraser and did not do it
as carefully. For my final product, I could cut out my image of the singer
neater because I used the quick select tool in Photoshop. I knew this from
my improved research. I then zoomed in to the edges and rubbed out
anything that I had missed. This made it look much neater.
• For my final product, I added more detail on my magazine. This was
because I looked up the codes and conventions. I looked up my fonts more
closely and tried to make them more original. I chose the fonts based on
the codes and conventions of fonts in that genre. The content is also more
realistic as well because I saw what was the most common for the content
in that genre, because I researched better. All my photos were original
unlike my preliminary task which shows I have improved with taking
pictures and using more original ones rather than just snatching them from
the internet like I did with my preliminary task.