1. Looking back at your preliminary task what do
you feel you have leant in the progression
from it to the final product?

2. Front cover’s

3. Comparison of front cover
• Although my front cover for my preliminary task happens to have many of the
conventions required from a front cover such as plugs, pulls masthead etc.
However the layout of my images have not been thought out it’s been put on
the page with no thought making it look odd. My typography was all in different
fonts making it distressing for the readers and the colors for my text were
black and Wight clashes with the colors of my background making the page
look to busy and quite distressing.
• When taking in to consideration all the errors of my first magazine I have lent
to thoroughly doing my market research it allows me to know exactly what I
want from my front cover , a key issue again with the front cover was timing
my student magazine was my first draft were as on my main task I constantly
made different drafts modifying it even the masthead i went through a list of
15 names narrowed it down to five and designed it in different Gothic styles
and picked one out of it. whereas I didn't go through this process the first time
on which taught me to be persistent ,it also enhanced my Photoshop skills as
you can see I barely could use it when I started the preliminary task now I’m
able to do the basics.

4. contents page
• The first contents page is my preliminary
task as you can see that I have done more
research for my main task. I was
persistence and was constantly redrafting
it to make sure that it presented all the
conventions of a rock magazine. In my
main protect I present many conventions
such as issue date, cover date, regulars
etc. All of which I did not include in my
preliminary task. I only did one draft of my
preliminary task and submitted it however
this time I was not going to make the same
mistake I had made over four drafts of my
contents page. To insure that I was
perfectly happy with it. The one thing that
helped me when I was making my
contents page. I was constantly looking for
examples of other contents pages to find
inspiration not only form actual magazines
but from also other media bog's.

5. What have I learnt form my
preliminary task
• There are many things to which I have learnt from my preliminary
task such as how to ask effective questions when doing your market
research and what different ways could you carry that out for
example survey monkey, interview question airs. I did survey
monkey and interviews because survey monkey is exposed to more
people but as I experience not everyone fills in your survey properly
so I did interviews to insure that answers are properly answered and
if they have trouble answering a question I can prompt them rather
then them leaving it blank in a survey. I have also leant to be better
organized although I met my deadline for my preliminary all my work
was rushed not showing my greatest qualities. I have become better
at research into my genre. I have drastically improved on my
Photoshop skills and my camera skills.
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6. Quality of photos• From my preliminary task I learnt that to plan each photo shoot and to consider editing
beforehand as in my preliminary task I didn’t consider my mise-en-scence properly it
was set in the study area however in some of my photos some of the student and
teachers were in the way. I didn't think about what types of photos I had wanted in fact I
didn't really know what I was looking for. I didn't organize any of my photos it was all
taken spontaneously causing the quantity of it not to come out of a higher standard. I
my main task I planned my photo shoot thoroughly to the point where I planned each
possess and the camera angles I was going to use. I used a plain background in some
of them in the others I edited the background out. I also re-took my photos a few times
as I was starting each section of my magazine.
Main task
Preliminary task

7. editing
• As I barely knew how to use Photoshop my images where bear and
was lacking manipulation. The furthest that I went was crop my
image. However I have learnt a lot more about Photoshop in the
process as in able to change images black and Wight, change the
colors of image for example change hair or eye color to remove
unwonted parts of an image etc.