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Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
My Front Covers from the preliminary task (left) and the main task (right)
My Content Pages from my preliminary tasks (left) and the main task (right).
In the premilary task I wasn't confident with using Photoshop because I knew nothing about it. I din't know how to use any of the tools so my products didn't turn out the way I hoped they would be like. However, it was a great exercise to get me get to grips and confident in Photoshop.
With my preliminary I only took one photo which now looking back at it makes the contents page very bland. My final product looks great because they packed with stuff that the reader wants to see. For example; the pictures, the cover lines, the different colours etc. It just makes the magazine look lively and active while the Preliminary task doesn't really. But it is good for a first go at Photoshop.
These are my mastheads from both tasks. Can you see the differences? The one on the left is my mathead of my preliminary task. As you can see it looks like someone who has never used Photoshop in their life. I did however discover how to dropcaps and this gave out a message that my college magazine is formal and neat. I used san-serif as part of my font to also give out the same message. All together not alot of thought was put into my first attempt as I just learning how to use this software. Unlike my preliminary task, my final product's masthead looks well done and had a great deal of thought put into it. When I did it I had finally grasped a idea of how to use Photoshop and I used this to my advantaged.
There is a clear difference between the two main coverlines. The preliminary task was just a try at Photoshop. I didn't know how to produce spectacular font styles so I went for a simple Lucida Handwritting to give a romantic feel. It isn't really fantastic and is boring. But in my final task front cover I overcome that obstacle and went for a font that was different and made my main coverline stand out the rest to show off its importance. It has a sort rock and roll feel to it and that is what this article is about. Also the font gives a High School vibe to it. I did this purposley because the article is on Ben Whiston who is young, like the target audience, and started his musical career in High School. Also the target audience is in High School and can relate to magazine increasing the magazine's sales.
My market research for the two different tasks were different. For my preliminary task I created a questionare on word and printed it off 15 times and handed out to people from my media class. But, with my final task I created a survrey online on Survey Monkey. I linked my account on Survey Monkey to my account on facebook and asked my friends aged 12- 17 to complete it. The two approches to the market reasearch are completely different. The first one I didn't get the right answers as I didn't ask a range of physcographs, but in my main task I asked all my friends to answer the questionairie, males and females, and also anyone could have answered it so therefore I had a variety of answers which was good.
In my planning for my preliminary and final front covers I found a existing front covers and analysed it. I did the same for the contents page and double page spread. I used a existing contents page to guide me during the process of designing my preiminary contents page. For all my products, apart from the final product's contents page, I designed a rough sketch of what I wanted it to look like.
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