7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? EVALUATION QUESTION 7

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Front Cover

After looking back at my preliminary task, I believe that my editing skills have improved greatly. For example in my preliminary task I only used iPhoto to edit my image, whereas in my music magazine I used a combination of editing tools on both iPhoto and Photoshop to get a more professional look. For example, I used the clone stamp tool to hide a shadow on the wall in the music magazine.

My photography skills have also improved, in the preliminary task I wasn’t really thinking about the lighting or the composition, I just wanted to get an image I could use. However for the music magazine a lot more thought went into it.

Also on the cover of my music magazine, I used more typical codes and conventions of a magazine, for example a bar code and price. Although they are only small things they do make the magazine look a lot more professional.

I also learnt how to download suitable fonts for my magazines from the internet. For my first magazine I used a font that was already on the computer, whereas with the music magazine I found and downloaded a suitable font off of DaFont. This helped the magazine to look unique and appeal to its target audience. With Photoshop I further enhanced the font to make it stand out even more

I also noticed that my preliminary task had too much blank space, and so changed that for my music magazine to make it look more professional.

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Contents Page

My two contents page’s are very different. On main thing that I learnt is the layout is the most important thing. In my preliminary task I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted it to look like before I made it, therefore it looks very shoddy. Again there is a lot of blank space and big fonts to hide there isn’t much on it. For my music magazine I picked a colour scheme and found a house style and stuck with it, and as I used it throughout the magazine it makes it look so much more professional already. I used a very clear and concise layout that is very atheistically pleasing, therefore luring potential readers in. I also learnt that putting page numbers on images to their corresponding articles also made the magazine appear much more professional. I also added a pun in so that the target audience feel included which is another code and convention of magazines.