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

 I have learned, looking at my preliminary task cover to my final front cover; when taking photos using a studio with proper lighting and cameras result in professional looking photos as apposed to 'ATTAIN' in which the picture was taken with my iPhone 5 in the outside sunshine.

I have learned how to arrange sell lines and display them more clearly. With 'ATTAIN' the pattern on the props meant that it was difficult to write over it as you couldn't read the text but because the props took up such a large pre portion of the page it left me with hardly any room for text anyways. When creating 'EXPRESS' I chose a prop that was fairly plain to avoid this problem and I made sure it wasn't centre of the page making it look busy.

I have learned how to attract a specific audience depending on the genre of magazine by using the correct props and model.

My skills have developed in terms of creating a magazine that looks realistic. This is due to the correct use of conventions and being very disciplined with my choices such as colour theme, font, font size and arrangement.

With my preliminary task I was quite relaxed and picked any random fonts and images and stuck with them, where as on my final piece in the editing process I played around with different colours, images and mastheads until I was completely satisfied.

If I could change anything I would change the masthead to the same burgundy red colour that is used throughout. I would say this because I have come to realise there is a cluster of white towards the top 1/3 of the page including 'EXPRESS', '12TH OCTOBER 2014 £2.50', 'THE BATTLE' and '1O TUNES YOU NEED TO HEAR'. Although the white does stand out I think that perhaps the red would also do the same, but better.

I thought carrying out the preliminary task was useful because it helped me learn from my mistakes as I progressed into making my final piece. I would occasionally look back and make sure I wasn't making the same mistakes I did with my preliminary and In the end it worked in helping me create, what I believe, a far better product.

I gained a lot of knowledge that was vital when creating my music magazine. I needed to gain independent research skills to inform myself how to attract an audience that is correct for my genre of magazine. I learnt editing skills such as adjusting the colour of my images used and how to fit an arrange everything on a page so it looks appealing to the eye. I had to learn how to export files to the correct format so I could upload them onto my blog (from pages document to a JPEG). Last but not least I had to learn how to write for the correct purpose which was to intrigue and audience and draw them in (this occurred mostly with my sell lines).