The document discusses improvements made from a preliminary task to a full music magazine product. Some key improvements included using a higher quality main image where the person is engaging with the audience, having a cleaner and bolder masthead, and adding more details and stories. Overall, the full product looks more professional with a simpler color scheme and consistent formatting across pages like columns on the contents page. The document also notes learning codes and conventions like using drop caps and spacing paragraphs on double page spreads.

1. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

3. Improvements
• Main image – in my preliminary, the person on the front is not looking directly at the camera and
is therefore not engaging with the audience, however, with my music magazine, the person is
looking directly at the camera and is creating a personal relationship with the audience. The
image is also better quality and is not as blurry.
• Codes and conventions – The masthead of the music magazine is clean and unique to any other
font, it is bold and clear and stands out more to the audience. On my music magazine I added a
positioning statement to show and persuade people to buy my magazine and it also looks better.
• Overall – overall the whole music magazine looks better and more professional. I think this for
many reasons, such as the colour scheme being kept simple and not all over the place, it is
maximized to at the most 4 colours and all of the cover lines are simple and yet effective as they
are the same colours.

5. Improvements
• I had improved my understanding and skills of my contents page in different ways.
• Images – I have more of a variety of images rather than having just one. Having just one on the
first task made things look a little too simple and nothing special was going on. The images also
are better quality and can be understood more.
• Detail – in my music magazine, there is a LOT more detail rather than just having around 3 stories
I have included 20+. The stories and descriptions are more detailed and persuasive. Big bands
names were good to use as it drew more people in and makes them want to purchase the music
magazine that I have created.
• Codes and conventions – I have learnt more about the codes and conventions of the music
magazine and the contents page in general. I have learnt that all of the writing should be in
columns rather than dotted around and that page numbers should be put in the descriptions and
on top of the images so that people know where to look right away.

7. Double page spread
• I have developed my understanding of double page spread articles and use all of the codes and
conventions to create a good double page spread. For example, I have made sure that I use drop
caps to guide the audience and spaced out the paragraphs where they needed to be spaced out.