Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?Question 7

Photo Editing

I think Photoshop has allowed us to be able to edit it our photos better. In our preliminary task we did not really change or edit our images whereas in our real product we started to manipulate the images and make them look more professional to add to our overall realistic look of the magazine.

Overall, our editing of the photos in our final products look better than our preliminary task as we did not take much are with the preliminary task and concentrated more on our final products to make it look as realistic as possible.

Research into existing magazines

During the course of making our final products we had time to research into different music magazines and see how they used layouts and fonts to make a popular magazine people would want to read. This allowed us to make our magazines fit in with these magazines and use the conventions they had used too. Whereas when doing our preliminary task we had to guess that the layout was right and looked professional as we did not research into school magazines.

Fonts and Layout

When making our preliminary task we just used the fonts that were already available on Photoshop, this made our magazine look quite plain and boring which did not add to the overall look of the magazine. Whereas over the progression of the course we realised that we could find different fonts of the internet like on urbanfonts.com. This helped to make our magazines look more creative and intriguing to an audience as the use of different fonts added to the overall layout and look of the magazines.

When making our preliminary task we did not worry about the layout and just placed things were we thought looked right. Whereas in our final products we made sure we had researched into the layout of music magazines to make our products look as realistic as we could with the time we had.