Question 4

Looking back at your ‘Preliminary Task’ what do you feel you have learned in the

progression from it to the full product?

Front Page

In the preliminary project I was less aware

of how a magazine cover should look and

the conventions that went with them. The

College magazine was the first project for

Media I has done, considering that I didn’t

taken this subject for GCSE I think that it

turned out quite well for the first time. In

the preliminary task payed more attention

to the conventional methods on the

placement of the articles for example I put

a left third on this magazine where as on

my ‘full project’ I had a right third. I feel

that I have learned how better to make a

magazine interesting and I also learned

how to work the programs and technology

when I did the preliminary task I became

more comfortable using QuarkXPress and

the cameras that I used to take the photos

for the covers and side pictures. I think I

also developed a style through the two

tasks.

In the progression to the ‘Full Project’ I

think I learned about the layout of the

front cover this helped me to make a more

professionally set out cover although if I

were to do this project again I would have

added more articles tot eh front cover and

filled out the page more to make it look

busy. Like I had done in the ‘preliminary

task’ however in the progression to the

main task I learned that images can be

used as well as article titles this is the

reason I did not put much writing on the

front cover although I now see that I

should have put more articles on the page

to make it look busier and more

interesting as well as giving the reader a

better idea of what the articles are about.

Preliminary

Task

Full Product

Contents Page

In the preliminary contents page I wrote a

lot more and had a lot less images I also

had less pages shown in the index and I

think went a bit too much into detail

writing a bit about every article title. In

the main project I had a lot less writing and

more images I think this worked better in a

sense however more writing under the

images could have been better and given

the reader more of an idea of what the

articles were about. Also in the main

project I had more sub headings in the

index this would have been good as the

audience would be able to pinpoint

something that might interest them at the

time.

In general I learned a lot about layout and

that the contents page should have more

than just articles and explanations on the

page I have looked at this issues and added

some extra features to my contents page

like more subheadings images adverts and

addresses for the magazine I think that

learning about adding extra features has

helped me to progress my magazine and

make it better than the preliminary task.

Double Page Spread

I did not do a double page spread for the preliminary task, however I did learn a great

deal about layout through the other two parts of the project for example the large

image and the quote were aspects that I have learned in the layout of DPS’s. I f I were

to do this project again I would have made the image cover both sides of the mage

and written a more interesting article that might appeal to more people.