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

From looking back at my preliminary task, it is clear that my skills have progressed in producing media products. At the time of making my front cover during my preliminary task, I was proud of it and thought it was an effective piece of media, however, comparing it to my front cover of the main task I now think differently. My front cover now, is more professional looking and more effective to attract attention.

Preliminary Task Main Task

One area I think I have improved the most regarding the difference between my preliminary and main task is the use of colour. I think the colour on my preliminary is dull and boring, it is not exciting or enticing in any way. I believe on my main task the colours will draw the target audience in. It is more bright and vibrant and fits the theme of the magazine well.

I believe the fonts I have used on my main task are more bold and eye catchy, in comparison to my preliminary task whereby the fonts are quite dull and boring. They dont particularly stand out or lure the audience in any way.

I think the positioning of my main image has improved. In my preliminary task it is placed directly in the middle, making it difficult to place the sell-lines around it. Where as my main task front cover is placed on the right hand side, leaving space in the left hand side to fit my sell-lines. It is also a convention of a pop magazine to have the image placed on the right hand side.

Overall, this project has allowed me to enhance my Photoshop skills for a beginners standard to a high standard in order to create an effective pop magazine pieces. On top of this, it had allowed me to gain a better understanding of how to develop features of a pop magazine onto my own. Not in a basic way, in an effective, eye catching way, to draw in the audience. By making my own Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread, I have enhanced my knowledge of Pop magazines and have applied the correct content, layout, fonts and colour scheme a typical Pop magazine would have, in order to be successfully appealing to its target audience. The skills I have learnt are useful and I will be able to reffer back to them in the future.