1. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
You can see a great improvement form my preliminary task to my final product. I have put in
a great amount of work in my research and planning and this has allowed me to create a
magazine to the best of my ability. I have learnt many new skills along the way especially
with Photoshop and Indesign, I have applied my new skills to my music magazine making it
the best I possibly can. The colour scheme I have used is a lot better than my preliminary
task as the colours jump out to the reader more grabbing their attention, also the structure
and layout is better, making short points to jump out at the reader other than almost
sentences on my preliminary task which wouldn’t attract the reader at all. The image I have
used is also a lot more effective by using a studio to shoot for my music magazine it has
allowed me to get a greater quality photo and with Charlotte laughing it really reflect he
personality to the audience straight away.
Also from the preliminary contents page to my music magazine contents page I have
changed the structure a lot, I’ve ensure that my contents page holds the reader’s attention
by being short and quick with exciting news using buzz words to really emphasise this to the
reader. Also from my preliminary front cover to my music magazine front cover the image I
have used in my music magazine is a mid-shot this allows a closer look at Charlotte’s face
which is essentially what the audience focuses on the most. Also when it came to my double
paged spread from my development of using Indesign and Photoshop I was able to create a
colourful interesting spread, dodging the chance of it being boring with to much writing and
too little colour.

2. After looking at a variety of magazines in my research, I found that NME best suited the
style of magazine I wanted to produce. I really liked NME’s layout’s, colour scheme, artists
and genre’s. I have created an alternative/ indie magazine which typically follows NME’s
conventions. I researched into a variety of NME magazines finding that there colour scheme
ran throughout which was red and yellow this highly influenced the colours I used for my
music magazine. After looking at one NME magazine in particular it gave me the idea that in
my double page spread the first letter of the first word should be so large that the rest of
the text can fit inside it, making it interesting and very quirky for the reader, very much my
audience would want. I also looked into the font NME used they used a few fonts to keep it
interesting for the reader but not too many to allow it to be easily readable for the
audience, I went for a very similar approach to NME.