Looking Back At You Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Final Product?

By looking at both of my magazine covers i am able to compare them and i can see the progress i have made throughout the course. i have progressed by learning about different technology techniques that enhance the quality of productions. I have also learnt a lot about magazine conventions including the layout, colours, photos and text and how these factors can affect the quality of my work, and so when making my final magazine i new the typical tropes and i was able to use them in order to improve my magazine. The typical tropes is for subtitle sot go down the side of the cover, where as on my preliminary task I put them down the bottom which then does not make it look as professional and planned out. It hard to completely compare the two magazines as they are based on two different topics, however in general i can see that my final product look much more professional as it looks well planned out, on my prelim cover there are numerous mistakes because it was not preplanned and so these mistakes makes it look amatory and of poor quality. Overall I have learnt a lot from my prelim to my final cover on how i can make a good looking professional magazine cover if i use certain techniques, conventions and software.




















By also comparing my contents page from my prelim task and final task i am able to see more development. I think that my prelim contents page looks boring and plain due to the lack of colour and layout used.Eben though when making my prelim contents page i thought that a more minimalistic look was better i can see now that i left it too minimal as it looks empty, which is boring and would not at all appeal to my target audience. On my fist attempt I used a simple text font thinking it made it look professional however it now looks simple, dull and that no effort was really put into it. My final one looks more full and interesting because the page is filled up but at the same time not really that cluttered, I have also used interesting and different fonts for different sections that have continued to be used from the front cover, whereas on my prelim i used one font for all of the text. Again my final contents page looks of higher quality as it looks more planned and professional.

When looking back i would say that i did not put as much effort into my prelim task as my final task, and this definatly shows through quality comparison. Also because i had not done any research of magazines when i made my prelim i was unsure at the time of how my school magazine should look to make it as good as possible. And so when i see my final pieces i can see my research payed off as i was able to take into consideration many different factors when making a magazine in order for it to look professional.

For my final product i was also able to make many changes in order to improve and correct an mistakes i may have made as i made three different versions of my magazine, each time improving making the quality better every time. However on my prelim i had one attempt and so could not ask my target audience what they like and dislike about it in between versions in order to improve.