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

2. Preliminary task…
• The preliminary task was
to create the front cover
and contents page of a
college magazine.

3. Research and planning
• When I did the research and planning for my preliminary task some of the only
research I did was to briefly look at some existing college magazines and
concentrated more at looking at other more popular magazine genres, this shows
in the quality of my work as I didn’t have a clear idea of what sell lines to include in
my contents page.

4. Flat planning
• My flat plans for my
preliminary task were
quite basic and weren't
very detailed, for
example my main
image was only a
outline and wasn’t
detailed about how I
wanted my main image
to be.

5. Finished product
• My finished product was quite
plain and basic and featured a
medium close up of a model on
my front cover and a long shot on
the contents page, the magazine
had a pink colour scheme as my
target audience were female
college student.

6. Main task…
• My main task consisted of a
front cover, contents page and
double page spread of a music
magazine of a mainstream
chart music genre, and had a
target audience of both males
and females in the 16-24 year
old age group.

7. Research and planning
• A lot more in depth research and planning
went into my main task, I looked at other
music magazines of the same genre such as
American music magazine ‘Billboard’ and
‘Blender’

9. • I also researched main image poses and what I
want my models to be wearing in my
magazine, I also looked at other magazine
articles and this gave me an idea of how I
wanted my magazine to be, I also looked into
my target audience and looked at what they
liked and what interests them and tried to
incorporate it into my magazine to help attract
my target audience.

11. Flat planning
• My flat planning's for my main task were a lot more in depth and detailed and included all the
information I needed when producing my magazine. I included a detailed drawing of the main
image and wrote down what colour I wanted everything to be.

12. construction
As you can see my main task is a big improvement from my preliminary task as I put a lot
more time and effort into my main task and spent a lot more time doing some initial in
depth research before even starting my product, this helped a lot as I knew exactly how I
wanted my product to be before producing it. I also experimented a lot more with the
images I used as the images for my preliminary task were very plain and basic but there
a lot more varied and professional in my main task. My front cover looks a lot more
professional then my preliminary task and my contents page contains more conventions
(such as the weekly chart) that I saw on other magazines such as ‘Billboard’ during my
research.