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

Looking back at my preliminary task of making a college magazine front cover I have learnt how to use Photoshop in order to create a magazine front cover, adding different fonts and sizes to texts. In comparison to my preliminary college magazine my music magazine front cover is much more conventional due to much more space being filled with different text styles.

There is a lot of free space on my preliminary task front cover which I learnt from as it does not look very conventional of a magazine. However I did include the conventions of a magazine such as the barcode, mast head, sky line, footer, pull quote and the feature stories.
I also learnt how to frame my images to make them appropriate for a magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. I learnt that the use of a medium close-up shot is commonly used for the front cover due to it showing the main feature to be large in the frame but not to large that text cannot be places around it in order to make a conventional magazine cover.
I also learnt how to choose appropriate colour schemes and outfits for my features in my magazine. This is reflected through the darker aesthetic of my music magazine due to it being of the Rock, Punk and Blues genre as it would not fit having brighter more vibrant colour scheme.

As shown my my music magazine front covers, they are much more filled with features and have a wider variety of fonts and font sized in order to make this a much more conventional front cover. I learnt how to cut the background out of my images through the use of multiple different tools using Photoshop. Due to the shadow that was on this original image it was difficult to cut out using either the magic wand tool or the quick select tool. This resulted in me having to learn how to use the polygonal lasso tool in order to cut out my picture and remove the background.