BY AYESHA PATEL

Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel

you have learnt in the progression from it to

the full product?

As you can see I have learnt and developed new techniques on photo shop that have allowed me to do a much better job than before. My preliminary

tasks masthead wasn’t very bold and quite basic it also didn't really catch the readers eye whereas my music magazine masthead does now as it is capitalised and bold. I have definitely improved as I've learnt from the

mistakes I made in the preliminary task.

MASTHEAD

FRONT COVERTo me there are obvious

improvements, the most noticeable one is the image of the main feature; in my preliminary task the image has

a lot of dead space above it and is very centred whereas in my music

magazine its a medium close up and there’s hardly any dead space and if

there was I had filled it with cover lines, footer and header bars and the masthead and slogan. There's also a difference in the effects I put on the

text in the preliminary there is a stroke on some of the text and it

blurred out the words a bit but in my real thing everything is fine and easy to read. There are some similarities like the fact that both front covers aren’t over crowded and still have quite a lot of information in them.

CONTENTS PAGEMy contents pages have some

similarities like the page numbers are both in speech bubbles and the layout is still quite clear. However there are visible differences , the structure is better now

and looks much more professional. Another thing that has changed is the page heading as its now eye catching whereas before it was very plain and

basic. The text is quite small and hardly readable which has definitely been

approved in my music magazines text. One thing that I did do in both magazines

was the social networking sites added below which I find very important to promote my magazine. The colour

scheme in my music magazine is a lot brighter with colours of blue’s and greys which stands out against the pale blue

background whereas in my preliminary I had a plain background with yellow and blue text which didn’t stand out as much due to the background being too bright.

IMAGESMy images in my preliminary task weren’t that

bad it was just that there was a lot of dead space. However in my music magazine I had take every single image and added a filter to them something that I didn’t do before as I didn’t know how to. My main image on my

music magazine front cover is so much more interesting and professional compared to my preliminary tasks image as the model is alone

and the readers are not being distracted by the background, the background of the image also allowed me to work with much more ease as it

was a plain background. My preliminary contents pages image was quite boring and basic whereas my music magazines image is

very bold and stands out yet again that maybe due to the shot and also the filter and

background. From my preliminary task I knew how I wanted my images to look and what I

didn’t want them to look like , so I was therefore able to improve my work.

OVERALLI am quite pleased to see how far I've come just by

learning new techniques on Photoshop, this has greatly improved my work and its clear to see. I was able to see my weak areas in my preliminary tasks and adjust them so they are no longer weak and this allowed me to make

a much more professional piece of work. I know that I have learnt a lot and I know I can now use these new

techniques in future projects to strengthen my work. My understanding of the layout, images, mastheads and modes of address have improved and allowed me to

make a better piece of work that I can honestly say I'm proud of.