7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When comparing the two magazine there are many clear differences to be seen between them :

• Both my front cover and contents page have been designed and thought about a lot more instead of me just designing as I go along. This is mainly because of the research I did for each section, as it is much more detailed then that of my preliminary task.
• The photos taken have been thought about a lot more and edited much better. This is because when doing the preliminary task I had never used Photoshop before so I did not know how to use it properly, but when I went to do my music magazine it is clear that I had become more confident with using it and find new ways to make my photos look professional. Also I used different materials for my music magazine photos. For it I used professional lighting and a backdrop instead of going outside.
• I picked my models a lot more carefully this time as I discovered with my school magazine that not all people look natural when taking photos. For the preliminary task it is easy to see I just used my friends as my models but for my music magazine I thought about who would fit my category and would not mind posing for the camera.
  
  
• The text for my music magazine has also been thought about more and chosen so it works well. As you can see in my music magazine, there are two different fonts on the front cover as I wanted one to stand out more then the other as it was more important, on my preliminary magazine this has not happened. All the text is the same size and font and not a clear title which is obviously the main of the magazine. Also I used the same font across my music magazine so it links together, as well with colours. This does not appear to have happened for my school contents as I had to rush to finish that on time as I had spent too long on my front cover and trying to think what to do.
• I learnt how to manage my time more effectively on the second task as before I was rushing to get everything done at the end, where as for the music magazine I understood what I had to do and how to do it more. I also set myself deadlines through out it so i had a target to go to, this helped me as I then new what was left to do and what I had completed.
• The whole structure of my music magazine is a lot better then that of my preliminary one. I tried to keep to the three section rule a lot more, this making it look and work a lot better. The best example of this is in the music contents page as it can clearly be seen that there are three sections, this cannot be seen with the others causing it to look untidy and a mess.
  
  Overall I believe that my music magazine is a lot better quality and designed a lot better then my preliminary one. However I do not think if my school magazine was how it was that I would have learnt how to use tools and produced ideas to create my music magazine.