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

The layout out my magazine has changed drastically as in my preliminary task I have not thought about how the photograph should be positioned, and it looks quite messy as the text is placed quite randomly which means I have a lot of spaces. I have learnt to structure the text with the help of guidelines as I wanted it to look professional and neat, the picture is better positioned as it is now the main focus of the magazine cover.

My college magazine's picture isn't a good quality as it is slightly blurred whereas my music magazine photo is a high quality as I used and SLR camera which meant I could focus and zoom this helped to make the picture clear. In the preliminary task I didn't understand how to portray the college genre through techniques such as mise-en-scene to have improved the college I could of added props like a backpack or books, I learnt to portray the rock genre in my music magazine through costume and makeup.

I started to think about how the use of colours and font sizes can help the way a magazine looks. I have learnt that font sizes and fonts can show the magazines genre for example the masthead is a good rock font. I have used a big font for my artist name as this is the biggest feature inside and is the text that should first attract the audience thus showing I have an understanding of font sizes.

The layout of my music magazine is better structured that the college magazine as I have placed my text in a straight column rather than turning the page stories different ways like I did in the preliminary task.

The text font for my college magazine looks childlike and slightly girly whereas I have learnt that the font reflects the genre so for my music magazine I used a bold impact font to make it stand out and create a sense of urgency.

There is a lot of blank space on my preliminary task, I have learnt that you need to fill space and make the most of the space you have by including extra pictures or text, by filling the page it looks more professional.

The college magazine photos were taken in a rush and although they show college photos they don't necessarily look good, I now know that it is important to think about mise en scene  which I have done for my music magazine, I have included props like a guitar and the clothes on the model reflect the rock genre.