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

Evaluation Q7:

By Harriet Broadley

This is a key aspect of having a good magazine which I didn’t fully understand when experimenting with the preliminary task. However when making my music my magazine, the Housestyle was carefully thought about.

The preliminary task lacked proper layout and planning however I learnt to use a style model to help with the layout and make sure all things are included. My magazine now has a barcode, quotes, freebees and a proper layout.

The colour schemes and fonts are clearly continued throughout my new magazine using the same fonts and margins.

Housestyle

The text and fonts I have now used in my opinion, has developed the most.

The main issue with the preliminary front cover and contents has the cover lines and text all being the same fonts and so having no contrast with each role they have to play. For example the font for the headline-’contents’ was the same as the text below it for article titles. This shows no difference between the two. With the final product there is more variety I in color, font and size so this is more appealing to the reader.

I have learnt here to put more effort and research in to examples of magazines to look into what conventions magazines portray.

Text and Fonts

The main rule in magazine conventions is to only use 3 main colours. In my preliminary task, my main colours were red and white and the third too hard to identify. In my final magazine however, they are black, white and yellow.

I’ve learnt that its important to magazines to make sure these 3 colours are easy to identify as the reader in order for a more sophisticated colour scheme. Otherwise the design would look messy and unattractive to the reader.

I’ve also learnt that it’s important for my magazine colours to symbolize something. For example the yellow portrays the happy, positive tone of my magazine and also the pop genre.

Colour

Well, I’ve learnt a lot about technology. Especially those macs. I learnt to use a green screen as a background which helped to add

another magazine convention of putting the text behind the model using final cut pro on the macs.

In my school magazine I used my phone to take the picture of the model therefore lacking quality in the image and looking messing therefore the readers losing interest in the magazine. My final magazine I used a proper camera for the images so I got a high definition picture.

I also only used pixlr express with the first magazine which limited me to only using on layer however in my music magazine I used more software like pixlr editor, express, final cut pro and even word for my double spread which meant I was less limited to one resource and more capable of developing the magazine.

Technology

To conclude; I like I have come along way and learnt loads of new skills especially with technology so I am more knowledgeable and able to do more things to produce better magazines after the mistakes I’ve made with the preliminary task.

Conclusion