Media

1. 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

2. Front Cover
Front
Cover

3. 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.

4. Contents

5. 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.