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

What was done before my music magazine?

Before I started my music magazine I had to do a preliminary task which was to create a collage magazine for the students in Leyton Sixth Form College. I had to plan how I wanted to do my front cover and contents page. I had to make the masthead linked to the college so I picked LCS(short for Leyton Sixth Form College) Update.

The pricing for this magazine was free, this was because it is a college magazine and people wouldn’t buy it with money because they wouldn’t want to waste £1.00 on a college magazine so I thought that I’ll make it for free. However, for my music magazine I decided on the pricing of £2.99 because it is a monthly magazine. For my music magazine the pricing is suitable for my audience as well because I do know that I have younger audience who may not be able to afford an expensive magazine.

The age group for my college magazine is for college students so it is ages between 16-19, for my music magazine it is ages between 16-35 so the age group is different. However, both of my magazines age audience starts at age 16 so my college magazine helped me to understand a bit more of what this type of age will ne attracted by.

College Magazine vs Music Magazine

College Magazine

Music MagazineFor my college magazine the colour

scheme is red, yellow, black and blue. These colours are bright and mainly attractive for younger people. On the other hand the colour scheme for my music magazine is black, white, blue and red. For these colours they are more professional and also a colour that would attract any age group. The main model on my college magazine is standing in a way like she is confused, this links to my main cover line “will you be happy with your ending?” For my main model she is standing very serious and confident which also links with the main cover line “I can do it better than others” which shows the confidence and braveness in herself. The photography for my college magazine is really unprofessional as it is not in a professional studio. However, for my music magazine I went into a studio with a whit backdrop.

College Magazine vs Music Magazine

For my teasers in my college magazine they were all around the magazine so it didn’t look too professional and it was also to much around the main model so I learnt for my music magazine I will be keeping my teasers on one side of my magazine so people could concentrate also on my main model on my front page. On my college magazine the teasers make it look really crowded and busy, but on my music magazine it is kept simple and on one side so it looks neat.

College Magazine vs Music Magazine • I have a better masthead which I have created on Illustrator

which made my music magazine look more unique than my college magazine.

• I have a better understanding of colour scheme, making my music magazine look professional with professional colours. The font style on my music magazine is much smaller and neat rather than my college magazine which has a bold front style.

• Better camera with better images.

College Magazine vs Music Magazine For my contents page my

college magazine is very squashed onto one page. On the other hand my music magazine is spaced out onto two pages making it look neat and professional. My font style on my college magazine looks very childish and unnecessary. I have added a social networks page on my music magazine which will make It more attractive for my audience to stay connected online with my magazine. The background colour of my college magazine looks really unsuitable, but my music magazine looks suitable with a white background and an image on the left side. There is a better use of layout on my music magazine page.

• The task of making a college magazine really helped

me to understand how to use the technologies such as Indesign and Photoshop, this then helped me with making my music magazine. The only different technology I used for my music magazine was Illustrator which was to make my masthead for my music magazine.

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