Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the full project?

From my preliminary task to my full project feel I have learnt a lot of new skills of how to produce a magazine. One of the main things that stood out for me was that in the preliminary task I used a stroke on almost everything however after doing more research into magazine I have learnt that they don’t tend to use stroke. Another thing that stood out to me was the image and the shot type. I have learnt what sort of images appear on the cover contents and double page spread of a magazine. I have learnt how to adapt a magazine to a certain genre and subgenre and about how important the colours and fonts are to getting this right.

I have learnt that more than one person will be shown through out the contents page of a magazine and that it is important to have a variety of different people or topics in the magazine. I have also learnt that it is important to keep the logo through out the front cover and contents age. Another thing I have learnt is that there is often an editors not on the contents page.

Creating a double page spread was something I have never done before so I therefore had to learn all the conventions from scratch with nothing to look back on and improve. Although it was a challenge I feel I was successful in creating a professional looking double page spread. I have learnt that having the picture over both pages makes it look more professional. Also to include columns and page numbers.