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

From this, you can see a clear difference in the quality between the two, in both my Front Covers, and Contents Pages. The double page spread, as one was not necessary within our preliminary task I did not produce one, however the Double Page spread for my finished product I believed turn out fantastically. The front cover for my preliminary piece lacks various features relevant for that of a music magazine; the title of the magazine is not clear, it lacks information and the pictures are square, block images, with no contrast to the background image. Also, the text present throughout the front cover is very bland, it does not extract any sort of attention from the background and hence making it useless. With my finished product I have tried to eliminate these factors, making a large, obvious title for my magazine, bursting out of the page in a 'PUNK' font, with the colours in relation to that of the background, although with a slight differentiation to make it stand out from the rest of the cover. Also many other features such as the images, I have used Photo shop to extract various images from their background and place them unto more suiting backgrounds for the style of magazine to which I have taken upon. Other features such as the bursting images as a teared background to the band name, from the left of my finished product front cover, set it in a different standard to that of my preliminary piece.


















In relation to this, with the contents page for my preliminary piece, it has various features that I genuinly believe suite the style of magazine in which it is portraying, for example, the boxes outlining the various page numbers and cover stories within them are a great asset to the page. Also the variation in green/yellow along the bottom, also contrasting with the text along the bottom and top (the title/main cover story) along with the smaller story in white along the bottom, make for an overall good look. However it lacks originality and the factor of belief. If this magazine was placed on the shelves it would not generate a fan base, its potential target market would not be interested due to its lack of images, and also due to the fact that its too block coloured. However with my finished product, again I have become neglegate to block colours, I have used various texts, along with colour schemes to create a contrasting effect. Also, the main image itself has been extracted from its background to set it aside from the rest of the page, pulling it out of the background. The promotional posters on the bottom right have been specifically cut and enhanced using a horizonal adjustment feature on Photo shop. This sets them aside from the rest of the magazine, making sure none of the features blend together as not to make it boring.