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

Pre-limenary task, cover and contents page. There are many weak areas of the pre-lim, the white font blends with the grey background.

Finished product. I took special care in making all of the font clear and easy to read.

My real product was much stronger than my preliminary task. The colour-scheme of my pre-lim was weak in comparison to my real product although both products were very different. The pale pink and white colour scheme of the pre-lim was perhaps well suited for the intention of the product but was overall too neutral to grab the attention of the intended audience. The lack of different and interesting fonts on the cover made the pre-lim dull and unattractive, though the cover image was bold and clear to the magazine subject. I focused on improving the layout and colouring of the cover, rather than having just one image as my pre-lim did, I used several images and several headings with a variety of exciting fonts to liven up the cover. The colours were bold, the addition of a fourth colour for the background of the one heading “Free Posters” added a more realistic element as found on the cover of “Kerrang”.

Development of my contents page

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This is my final contents page, you will notice elements between this and the contents page of 'Kerrang' are the same but it is not entirely similar.

Similarities include the layout of the editors note and general colour scheme. The layout of the text for the contents page is also very similar, but on the opposite side of the page, this was to accomodate for my background image, the focus on the image is on the right hand side, so I put the text on the other side of the page so you can fully see the image.