1. Evaluation 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
full product?

2. Comparing previous and
latest AS pieces
 Due to the fact that I never truly finished my preliminary task first time
round, and also that this is a re-submission, I have decided to compare my
current AS work (re-submission) with the previous piece in order to see
what has changed between the two and how I have improved my own
skills over the time period.

3. Front Cover
 Between my first piece of AS media product
and my resubmission there has been a
significant amount of changed that can be
seen from the very first page. Although
during the production of my resubmitted
work I did choose to stick to the same genre
and same magazine title, I did not allow that
to affect my choices when designing, what I
mean by this is I didn’t just decide to copy
things straight off my old magazine and add
it to my new one, I started completely blank.
First of all the masthead of my resubmitted
work is much more creative and unique
whereas for the first piece I had taken the
font straight from InDesign so there was no
creative element behind it. Also the effect of
it being behind my artist in the new front
cover was a nice touch.
Some elements where kept fairly similar, such as the use of the scan code the
sell line positioning. Though the colour scheme in my resubmitted piece allows
all the text to stand out more and is easily visible, one of the complaints about
my first piece was that the background made it hard to read some of the
brighter text which was bad considering the front page is the most important
part of the magazine. Finally the star image, my current star image (main
image) fits much more with my genre because of the way he is dressed, he
looks more like a Hip Hop artist than the latter. This allowed my magazine to
have more of an RnB and Hip Hop feel and made it look more authentic.

4. Contents Page
After looking at my past contents page and
my current contents page, it is evident that a
lot more time has been put into my
resubmitted work and a lot more effort, as
you can see there is more happening on the
page though it still stays neat and ordered
which is what I aimed for. Now although the
old contents page also had that organised
look about it, it was again the colours I had
chosen for the subheadings were not easily
visible and the model herself wasn’t really
wearing the right attire for me to say that she
was and RnB or Hip Hop artist, not a lot of
thought and consideration had been put into
it, more conventions were followed in my
resubmitted work compared to my old piece.
I realise that the first time I made a music
magazine I didn’t really think it through I just
went ahead and made what I thought was a
good magazine, but this time round there was
more thought on trying to make the magazine
look professional and as realistic as possible.

5. Double Page Spread
 Personally I’d have to say my old double
page spread was going in the right
direction to look good if I’d had more
practice with the software and editing
skills to make my artist blend with the
pages, whereas when you look you can
clearly see the jagged crop marks.
Compared to my new contents page the
old wasn’t too far off, though for the new
one I had chosen to be a bit more smarter
with it, as in I made it look more like the
Vibe magazine double page spread as it
made it look more professional then
having a lot of text and trying to throw in
an image of my artist. With the font also I
was more creative using different font for
the artist name making it stand out and
although I had a drag out quote in my old
one, it’s positioning was not well done as
it was just put across the top page as if it
were the title.

6. Overall
 I think that overall more time and
effort was put into my resubmitted
work because of the fact that I knew
how to improve and where I went
wrong, also developing my
Photoshop skills allowed my
magazine to have that creative
element to make it look
professional. Time management is
also a key factor, whereas last year I
was behind and didn’t really start
production till late this time I
started early as it gave me more
time to make edits and continuously
make my work better.