Evaluation Q7

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

Preliminary Task - College Magazine     Main Task - Music Magazine

For my preliminary task, I had to plan and create a college magazine, following the codes and conventions of college magazines. This was to prepare us and give us an idea of what we would have to do to create the front cover, contents page, and double-page spread for a music magazine. Also, by doing the preliminary task, I was able to develop my already sound Photoshop skills even further, which definitely helped when constructing my final front cover. The following picture shows the skills I have developed from the preliminary task and throughout the main task:

Doing the preliminary task and constructing the college magazine taught me a number of things.It showed me the importance of having a good photograph because the photograph on my college magazine if pretty bad because some parts are over-exposed, which is not particularly good for a magazine cover photo. Also, it showed me that I needed to have more sell lines that are smaller in size, because I only have two on my college cover and they are too big so they take up a lot of room. Also, the model's clothes do not go with the house style, whereas on my music magazine cover, they do. After researching music magazines that were of the same genre as mine, I realised that they had a lot of sell lines that were quite small so I needed to do the same to follow the conventions of music magazines.

Comparing My Products

Comparative Table

This table shows that I used a good range of conventions on both covers, but the quality and conventional placement of each convention on both magazines differs, with the quality and placement of course being a lot better on my music magazine. The conventions on my college magazine are lacking heavily in quality and good placement.