The document discusses the learning and progress between a preliminary magazine task and the full magazine production. Key learnings included aspects needed for a professional magazine like mastheads, barcodes, and appealing articles and images. The progression included gaining more software skills and using a higher quality SLR camera rather than a digital one, resulting in a more realistic magazine. Comparing the two productions showed that choices like the SLR versus digital camera and different design software impacted the quality and professionalism of the final magazine.

1. Looking back to your preliminary task,
what do you feel that you have learnt in
the progression from it to the full
product?

2. What have you learnt about the conventions of magazine
productions and what progress have you made from the student
magazine?
What I learnt from the magazine production process is, that there
are certain aspects that you need to add in to your production to
make it look realistic and professional and also appealing.
Things like:
 Masthead & Sell lines
 Barcodes and price
 Appealing article
 Professional images
The progress I made from preliminary task was I had more skills
and this time I used a SLR camera rather than a digital one,
which helped a lot because it made it look a lot more realistic.
Also this time I was more familiar with software making it easier
for me to make the magazine properly and faster.

3. Think about every aspect of both productions and
scrutinize every decision you made?
Using a digital camera instead of an SLR was
one thing I learnt in the process between the
preliminary task and the real one, with an
SLR the image quality was a lot better and
looked more professional for a magazine. I
think using Gimp instead of Photoshop wasn't
the best decision as it didn't have as many
features as Photoshop, disallowing me from
doing some things.

4. Comparison

5. Comparison
As you can see in the slide above, there is a
massive difference between my front page of
my music magazine and my front page of my
school magazine, the mise-en-scene in my
music magazine is a lot better as I used an
SLR rather than a digital camera. I used more
bright colours and bolder fonts, making it look
more attractive.

6. Overall…
In conclusion, I believe I have improved
massively over the three months as I have
become more familiar with tools in software, I
used a different camera making my image
quality a lot better than it was in the
preliminary task. I am much happier with my
music magazine than I am with school
magazine as it looks more interesting.

7. Overall…
In conclusion, I believe I have improved
massively over the three months as I have
become more familiar with tools in software, I
used a different camera making my image
quality a lot better than it was in the
preliminary task. I am much happier with my
music magazine than I am with school
magazine as it looks more interesting.