EVALUATION TASK 7Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine

task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression

from it to full product?

PRELIMINARY TASK MUSIC MAGAZINE

FRONT COVER

I think that I have a made a lot of progress from the preliminary task to the music magazine task when it comes to the front cover. This is because I took the skills that I briefly learned during the first task and developed them further so that I could have a successful final product.

I also researched a lot of other magazines so that I was could get the idea of what the normal forms and conventions are of a typical music magazine, while in the preliminary task, I only looked at one and therefore did not know/understand what a typical student magazine front cover would look like.

For the front cover of my music magazine, I tried to make it look as professional as possible by keeping the puffs in line, having a barcode and using an image which is relevant to the genre of the magazine.

PRELIMINARY TASK MUSIC MAGAZINE

CONTENTS PAGE

I think that once again, I made some progress on my contents page because while in my preliminary task, I did follow the convention of having what is in the magazine, I did not have any pictures and this then made it look like a list rather than a magazine contents page.

For my music magazine task, I made sure I looked at numerous contents pages and then stuck to one idea in order to make it look as much as a professional music magazine as possible.

The second time around I also used multiple images which made the layout look a lot better and interesting. Although there is more to read on the music magazine task, it looks more complete and worthy of its price.

PRELIMINARY

TASK

MUSIC

MAGAZINE

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

For my preliminary task, the double page spread didn’t

look like it was for a student magazine because it didn’t

focus on something that was explicitly student related

such as revision tips or about exams ect.

The layout for the preliminary task looked less like a

magazine article. I learned from this and added columns

to my final product (music magazine) in order to make it

look more easy to the eye. I also used my own images

for the double page spread because that way, I was able

to capture the model the way I wanted to and not rely on

secondary images.