1. Looking Back At
Your Preliminary
Task (The School
Magazine Task),
What Do You Feel
You Have Learnt In
The Progression
From It To Full
Product?

2. Front Cover
By doing the preliminary task I learnt that
when I made my magazine for a school. I
had to do some research into what school
magazines are like. From this I learnt that it
had to be quite plain and simple. Also the
picture had to be presentable with the
students looking smart and tidy.
Also I had to think of suitable subheadings that would fit in well in
a school magazine. I thought of a colour scheme of blue, white
and black and by sticking to this colour theme my school
magazine looked more professional.
Also the picture had to be presentable with the students looking
smart and tidy. Also I had to think of suitable subheadings that
would fit in well in a school magazine. I thought of a colour
scheme of blue, white and black and by sticking to this colour
theme my school magazine looked more professional.

3. After doing my preliminary task it helped me a lot
when planning my music magazine. Like the
preliminary task, I did research. Before I did my
research into a rock magazine, I had to find out
what genre magazine my audience wanted to
read most. When the results came back the
majority of the audience said they would prefer to
read rock magazines. I then did research into a lot
of rock magazines. I analysed front covers,
contents pages and double page spreads’ and picked out the key aspects of
magazines. After doing this I made flat plans to get a rough idea of they
layout and then went straight into making my magazine. I used the lead
singer from the band on the front cover as on most magazines you usually
just get the one artist on the front cover. After this I chose a colour scheme
of black white and grey and stuck to it all the way through to make the
pages link together. From the preliminary task I learnt that on the front
cover you need to make things really stand out to catch the readers eye.

4. Contents Page
After doing research for front
covers I had to look at contents
pages. When I looked into school
magazines for my preliminary task
there were very few school
magazines with contents pages but
the ones that did have them were
really plain, simple and quite
boring.
When I did my contents page for my preliminary task I made it plain and simple but I
made it a bit more exciting. I used brighter colours and used pictures aswell to
help attract an audience. When I did my rock magazine I had to make it really
stand out. I used the same colour scheme as the front cover and I used
different types of images that relate to a few pages. I also used two ‘bursts’ with
text inside them to help my attract my audience. After doing my preliminary task
I learnt that when I did my music magazine I had to make it look really
professional. I did this by focussing on the images and layouts. I also made the
text bold and used black boxes just behind the white writing to make the page
contents really stand out.