1) The document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of creating a contents page for a magazine using Quak software. A strength was using images that suited the rock music genre, while weak points included font choice and color scheme. 2) When making the contents page, positioning columns and headings was easy but evenly spacing cover lines down the side was difficult. 3) Comparing a preliminary contents page to the final one, the author's Quak skills improved with the final page using more tools and planning. Not planning the preliminary page resulted in rushed photos and unclear conventions.

1. Skills Development-Contents page
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2. Strengths And Weaknesses
There are strengths and weaknesses of my production work when creating my contents page.
When I began to make my contents page using Quak I was clueless as I have never fully
understood all of the tools included on Quak.
Strengths Weaknesses
A strength whilst making my contents page is my use of
images. Placing my images onto my contents page on Quak
was a strength as I liked my images as they suited the genre
of my magazine accurately.
A weakness whilst making my contents page is the colours I
used. My colours on the page did match my colour scheme,
however I was not keen on the white background as it did not
seem to match my genre of rock. This also made it not match
the rest of the pages as well as it could have.
Another strength whilst making my contents page is my
columns. I feel that my columns are positioned correctly so
that my regulars, features and news are in a simple lay out so
that they are easy to find quickly and easy to read.
Another weakness of my contents page is the font of the
heading ‘contents’. The font I used for this was quite plain and
boring, although the colour of the font was red to match my
colour scheme I still found it could have been more
interesting to catch the audiences eye.

3. What did you find easy?
What I found easy: What I found difficult:
In the making of my contents page I found that deciding where
my heading and cover lines are going to be placed was easy.
Because it is a code and convention that the heading must be at
the top of the page and the cover lines must be in columns
sectioned into ‘regulars’ ‘features’ and ‘news’.
I found it difficult to position my cover lines evenly spaced down the
side of my contents page. This was hard because in order for it to
look professional the spaces between each line had to be even.
Eventually I did make sure that all of the spaces were evenly spread,
however I did find the process difficult.
During the making of my contents page there were some skills and techniques which I found easy to do,
however there were some things I did find difficult:

4. How does your use of Quak compare to the
preliminary contents page you produced?
I created and produced a preliminary contents page on Quak so that I had more experience using
the program and understood how to use the tools more. However, when comparing my preliminary
contents page to my music magazine contents page I can see a huge difference in the development
of my skills. I clearly have developed a wider range of skills on Quak. I used more tools and more
skills on my final contents page. Looking back at my preliminary task I realise that I did not
understand the importance of planning my contents page. It is extremely important to plan a
contents page so that the layout, wording and colour scheme is definitely to a high standard. Not
planning makes the process a lot longer and the final outcome not as good as it could be. I learnt
from not planning that I would need to plan my final contents page, so I made sure that I had a clear
sketch of what is going where on my page. Also my camera shots on my preliminary contents page
were rushed and not taken from the best angle. Because I didn't plan what I was taking photos of my
work did not look the best it could have and the camera shots could have been far better if I had
planned. Codes and conventions are also very important on a contents page, I felt that my codes and
conventions could have been far clearer making it easier for my audience to read. I learnt a lot from
completing this preliminary task, now my f9onal contents page is far better compared to my
preliminary task.