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

 

 

To reinforce everything I have said, I believe I have progressed a lot since the preliminary task and have learnt a lot

 

Design

After the preliminary task I learnt that for the next task I had to have an image with a clear background, and the image I had chosen for the prelim was a disadvantage to the final product as it had a busy background, which made the font on the front cover difficult to see, this then was a disadvantage for the readers, and would also not stand out on the shelves. For my final product, I made sure the image I took for the front cover was against a plain background. The font also chosen from the prelim task was quite basic (even though it matched it's genre), I felt that it didn't have much effect on me as it's targeted audience. For my magazine I made the font quite different, it is in bold, jet black with a 'graffiti' look to match it's 'indie' convention. Both images used in the two tasks are 'preety' images, I learnt from the prelim task that an 'attractive' image is appealing to an audience, especially male. Due to my magazine being an indie pop genre, I could again take an attractive image, the models hair is 'big' with links in with the indie theme too.

The contents page of the prelim task is very basic and plain, therefore I made my magazine contents page 'busy' with many images and different sized fonts to make it more attractive for the audience. I followed the convention of NME's contents page, where there are a lot of different images and text, this gives the audience opportunity to look at many different things the magazine offers.