Looking back at your preliminary

task, what do you feel you have learnt in

the progression?

FRONT

COVERS

My school magazine was not

following a variety of the codes and

conventions for example; the title can

not the title cannot just be put in the

middle of the magazine it either has

to be stretched out and fill the top of

the magazine or if it is a one word title

then it should be put in the left hand

corner. Also, the date and price is just way

too big. Usually should be at least

10pt and not 14pt so its hidden but

still able to see for the audience.

As you can see I have used a small

font on my magazine and by turning

it on the side gives the magazine an

edge, and by putting it up against

the barcode it saves more space.

I have also failed in the way that there

is too much writing which also means

it is giving off way too much

information. The amount of writing

makes the magazine look extremely

cramped and the font sizes are so

random.

The front cover uses direct address, which speaks to the audience as if it

is looking at them and that would usually draw them in, as it creates a

relationship with the customers. It generates new business leads and

sells. As well as, with the existing customers which will increasing the

customers loyalty as the direct address can speak to them on many

different levels.

Direct

Address

Although, on my school magazine I did use

direct address, except the quality of the pictures

was not as good as my music magazine (As you

can tell by looking at the fuzziness of this

cropped pictures). That made the school

magazine seem less professional then the

music magazine, and seems that it does not

want to make a good magazine for the audience

which I learnt and made sure the quality of my

pictures were at a high level so that it would

increase in buyers, this also shows in my music

magazine that I had improved in my

photography skills as I followed up with the

knowledge of different angles to add a nice

effect when it came to putting it on my

magazine.

Cover lines

Furthermore, on the school magazine some of the cover lines are hard to

read as the colours would sink too much into the background which would

make it harder to be seen from a distant from the audience and lose out on

profit whereas on my music magazine I used a fine line of the opposite

colours so that the cover lines would stand out and look professional, and

this would make a huge change and this will allow the audience to notice

the cover lines from the distant and they can then know that they would

want to buy the magazine when it is jumping out on them, And some cover

lines on the school magazine are too big and overlap in some areas and

this can make the magazine look unprofessional, the colours seem little

tacky in the way that I’ve changed the font size and made some bolder

thinking that it would look good when instead it looks extremely jumbled

up.

This then allowed to me to not do that on my music magazine and I set it out so

that it was spread out keeping the same colour in each cover line and changed

certain words to blue this added a good effect where the blue would stand out

and due to the questionnaire that I did they chose the colour blue so by the

audience choosing that colour I added it onto the magazine this would allow the

audience to feel as if they are a part of the magazine that we listened to them.

School magazine

Also, on the school magazine I am missing

certain codes and conventions which are;

the position statement which is the little

writing that goes under the title as a little

slogan for the magazine, the main cover line

is missing this is where the cover links to the

image on the front cover, the barcode on the

bottom of the school magazine is too big to

be a barcode so its breaking that when it

should at least be the size on my music

magazine which I realised and then made

sure that I changed it to fit the codes and

conventions.

Comparing Moreover, from the front cover of my school magazine its more or less the fact that

by looking at both of my front covers my music magazine just looks a whole lot

more like an actual magazine then the school magazine you can just tell how much

I have actually improved whilst working on this coursework from the

colour, photography skill, following all the codes and conventions and following all

instructions that I was helped with.

CONTENT

PAGE

Following on, the contents page has definitely

improved massively in the way that in looking at

my content it looks so rubbish in more

description it only contains 9 featured articles

when it’s suppose to contain 20 articles

minimum and the regulars should not be in the

middle of the magazine and only containing like

4 regulars.

Improvements Which from my improved magazine I have followed

my mistakes and I have made about 22 articles

and 8 regulars which has been set out in a nice

order with the band/artist in a bolder way so the

reader can notice where their favourite artist is.

Also, I have kept both ‘Features’ and ‘Regulars’ to

one column which then allows there to be more

space for the 5 pictures to go when on my school

magazine I only have 4 pictures which don’t even

link to the features or even make sense in that

matter, it doesn’t really give the readers for the

school magazine to have many options to even

look at really, and the pictures are in a rubbish

condition which from improvement, I learned lots of

different angles which is reflect onto my music

magazine, content page and gives it that

interesting touch.

I am still proud with the content page that I have

produced, as even just by looking at both my

school magazine and music magazine I know that I

have improved which I am glad that my skills have

Photoshop and QuarkXPress By using the different programmes QuarkXPress and Photoshop means that I

know have more confidence when I need to work on these programmes again

as future wise I will know what I’m doing, as I did have a small idea on how to

use Photoshop since I had used it before whereas I had never used

QuarkXPress before so that was good to learn some new things and on

Photoshop.

DOUBLE PAGED SPREAD

Although I didn’t do a double paged spread for my school magazine

so I couldn’t exactly improve but I did experience the fact I can

make a double paged spread which I found good because we got to

experience what it was like to be a journalist since we had to

interview a member of a band and then write out the article. As well

as that we needed to take pictures of the band which was

interesting, felt so professional whilst doing it all.

Conclusion I found that what I was actually good in was my photography skills

as I understood the different shots and that helped when I was

taking the pictures for my magazine, content page and DPS I had

definitely taken some interesting shots that was fun to explore, and I

enjoyed taking the pictures as it was fun to boss my model around

and try some new things. What I didn’t do too good through this

experience would definitely be my organisation skills as I only had

my work backed up on my memory stick and I would keeping losing

it, Also didn’t do to good at keeping to some of the deadlines that I

was given but I have improved there as I actually enjoy doing some

of the work so it isn’t really that stressful than I thought it would be.

But overall, I have certainly made a product that has been improved

in the last 6months which is definitely a good outcome as it is

pointless to do something and not have improved from it.