7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression

from it to the full product?

Throughout my project I have been really keen to learn some of the skills that goes into creating a magazine; I feel as if I have learnt a lot in order to gain the skills required for this product…

Comparing my Prelim task to my final front cover, I think there’s a major change in terms of quality; my music magazine’s front cover is so much better and more professional looking than my school magazine which I think is obviously much better, by researching into a number of magazines that have a similar target audience to me; this helped me incorporate ideas into my magazine that I knew would appeal to an audience of over 25 year old’s. Design wise, I’d say that there is a noticeable difference between the two as I’ve used more advanced and creative programmes. I think that my school magazine has an amateur look to it and I would hope that my music magazine looks a lot more professionally designed, which is what I was trying to achieve. I have definitely picked up some useful skills in design.

Comparing the two contents page, my music magazine contents page is more detailed and again more professional looking; the colours are definitely increasingly more appealing than the school magazine’s but I do take in consideration that my school magazine was aimed at both boys and girls so the colour schemes would then differ. My music magazine’s contents page is more organised and neat by being split into a number of different sections to make it easier for the reader to allocate what they want to find and what they can expect in this magazine, unlike my school magazine.

On the whole, I’ve learnt that through my research into a variety of magazine how you can neatly lay all your information out and how you can attract a certain target audience via the information you include in your magazine, your colour schemes, fonts and the pictures you intend to use. Also I’ve considerable become more confident with using a variety of programmes which helped me achieve all of this.