1. Evaluation 7
Looking back to your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?

2. Preliminary vs Music
I feel I have learnt a lot of skills since my preliminary task, I have learnt how many
subsidiary images you should use how many headlines there should be on a front
cover. As you can tell I have also learnt how to remove backgrounds and how to
take good photos with positioning. Personally I can see a huge improvement from
my preliminary to my music magazine with text/ colour. I have learnt how to follow
the codes and convention of a magazine. I have learnt that colour schemes are very
important on a magazine, they must fit the genre. It is a shock looking back to my
preliminary task.
Awful colour writing
on a red background,
needed a stroke of
1.5.
Stands out
more due to
using the
stroke tool.

3. I have learnt about layout of a magazine and how
important a contents page is to a magazine. The
colour scheme is so bland in the preliminary task
compared to the colours used in the music
contents. I have learnt that there can beup to 60
pages in a magazine where I have only used up to
7 pages in the school task. That would not sell as
a magazine because it would not have that much
information. I have gone up to 30+ on my music
magazine contents.
I have learnt the codes and conventions of a
contents page and to look at similar genre magazines
contents and see how they work their layout and
photos. I am still not 100% pleased with my contents
page but I have learnt many things. For example the
blue boxes I had to use about 3 layers so the text
could be seen over the colour.

4. Through the preliminary task and the music magazine I have learnt many skills about
applications on the laptop to make a music magazine. I feel like I have improved quite a
bit from my first ever task I did on InDesign. Making a music magazine can take a very
long time; picking the right text, correct colour schemes, images positioned well,
models that represent what you are trying to produce.
The making of magazines is a very hard industry but a lot of fun, you really do have to
think of snappy, short headlines not long nonsense ones that the audience will not read
like I used in my preliminary task. The words needs to be short, fast and interesting like I
have used on my music magazine task. I have enjoyed making my magazine on
InDesign, Photoshop and blogger it has been great fun. It is weird to think how much
time and effort has to go into making a music magazine to make a profit.
I conclude from the making of my magazines I have improved and you can see that
through the designs of both. Looking back to my preliminary you can tell some things
have not been taken into consideration. I am happy with my final outcome and how my
layout has worked. Even though it has taken me along time I know see how tough the
industry is getting.
Ffion Thompson 9160