2. CONVENTIONS- FRONT COVER
When I completed my preliminary task I knew
very little about conventions meaning that my
task does not cover all of the conventions
that it should, for example it is conventional
for a masthead to be in the centre of the top.
But one convention that I have followed is the
image, it is a school pupil in their uniform
which is conventional for a school magazine.
Comparing it to my finished rock magazine
front cover I can see that I have learnt alot
more about conventions of different
magazines and it has allowed me to make my
front cover more conventional.

3. PHOTOGRAPHY/ MISE-EN-SCENE
In my preliminary task I used a simple mid
shot of a pupil, however my photography
skills were not as good as they are now as I
did not do a lot of planning making the image
poor. The use of mise-en-scene within my
preliminary task is also unconventional, there
are no props used and she is standing
against a plain background. This has
changed massively in my final product as
more planning as gone into my photography
and the mise-en-scene is improved, although
there is no background the use of props is
better as I have used musical instruments to
improve the image more and make it look
more realistic.

4. IMAGE EDITING
In my preliminary task I did no editing at
all, the background stay on the image and
the image was just put on the page, this is
because I had little knowledge and no
software to do editing on. When I did my
final magazine I had more editing software
available, this allowed me to edit my image
more meaning I could take the background
off, this made the picture more eye
catching and professional.

5. LAYOUT
In my preliminary task the layout is not
appealing or conventional, after doing
research my rock magazine follows a more
conventional layout as well as following the
route of the eye.

6. FONTS
The fonts used in my preliminary are
conventional as they are sans serif and
very plain and basic, this would looks
appealing on a magazine but the
younger audiences may not find it as
appealing. But when it came to doing
my rock magazine I had a greater
understands which allowed me to make
all the fonts conventional and appealing
to all ages in my audience.

7. COLOURS
The colours used in the preliminary task are
very basic and not conventional for the
magazine, also some colours are hard to
read against the background as the
background is different colours (masthead),
since this I have improved on colour
schemes and what colours are conventional
for different genres, making my magazine
more appealing to my target audience.

8. MODE OF ADDRESS
The mode of address for the preliminary
task is very basic and does not appeal
very well to the target audience. Since
completing my preliminary task I have
learnt more about the mode of address
and what is conventional meaning that my
final magazine cover connotes violence
and anger, which are conventional for a
rock magazine making it appealing to my
target audience.

9. CONVENTIONS- CONTENTS PAGE
My preliminary contents page doesn't
cover many conventions for that type of
magazine, the one convention that is
does cover is having the contents in an
organised way taking up most/all of the
page. Since doing this I have learned alot
about conventions and how they attract
the audience and in my final contents
page I have used most of the
conventions of a rock magazine, this can
be seen as the page is in half, with
conventional texts, fonts, colours and
images which all help to attract the
audience.

10. PHOTOGRAPHY/ MISE-EN-SCENE
In my preliminary task I did not use any
images on my contents page as I didn’t
think that is was conventional, now
afters doing my final contents page I
now know that an image on the
contents page can help break it up and
makes it look more interesting as a
page meaning making it more
appealing for my audiences.

11. IMAGE EDITING
When I did my preliminary task I had little
knowledge of image editing which is why no
image has been used, and no image has
been edited. Since then My knowledge has
grown and I have learnt how to edit images
on different programs which has then
allowed me edit my image on my final
contents page, this then made my final
content look more appealing and
professional as an image is conventional.

12. LAYOUT
The layout used in my preliminary task is
very basic, it does not follow the route of
the eye and everything is in one giant
column. Since learning more about the
layout of a contents page I have now
been able to make my final contents page
more organised, and appealing.

13. FONTS
The fonts on my preliminary task
are very basic and plain, they may
be conventional but they do not
look appealing. After doing
research and using internet
websites I was able to use better
and more conventional fonts which
are appealing,

14. COLOURS
The colours that I used for my preliminary
task were are not conventional and there is
only one colour which is a very plain and
basic colour. This has been improved
massively after doing research into
conventional colours and what how many
different colours to use. This can be seen in
the substantial difference between my
preliminary task and my final contents
page.

15. MODE OF ADDRESS
The mode of address for my preliminary
task is very basic, this is because I did not
know what mode of address was but since
then I have learnt a lot about the mode of
address, this has made my final contents
page more conventional with its mode of
address therefore appealing to my target
audience.