Question 7

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


I feel like that, following my initial preliminary task, I have developed greatly in terms of my understanding of conventions and skills at creating a magazine. Firstly, I believe that when comparing my preliminary task cover and my final magazine cover, it is clear that I have progressed greatly. I made better use of the main image, which was not the best option for my preliminary task, because of a unsuitable background, needing to be removed. On the other hand, my final magazine cover has a suitable image for my magazine genre, with a close up accompanied by a brick wall background. Whilst it was a unsuitable background for my preliminary cover, it worked well for my final magazine cover. By recognising the correct uses of that particular background depending on the genre, I was able to develop a solid foundation for the cover. Another aspect of the page I felt that I have progressed from is my use of spaces and filling the spaces with text and images. On my preliminary cover, I left plenty of blank spaces all over the page, space that could have easily been filled. So when I begun to develop my final cover, I incorporated several conventions that I had learnt, such as anchorage text, secondary images and a slogan, all of which, plus many more, fills the blank spaces which make a cover look bland if not added.

Furthermore, I believe that I have progressed in my contents page from the preliminary task to my final contents. Firstly, I made sure to focus on creating a easier guide to what is actually inside the magazine, as in the preliminary task, my contents themselves are very limited and don't describe the limited number of articles well. Additionally, There is also a issue of blank spaces all over the preliminary task,  with the huge gaps wasting the space that could be used for text and images. So when I was developing my final magazine, I made sure to include images for several of the featured musicians, as well as making sure that there was a lot more text there to fill a entire magazine rather than just as few articles.

Overall, I feel that my magazine has shown great progression from my preliminary task, and as I have learnt the conventions and techniques of creating a magazine, I feel far more confident in creating one than I did previously.