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

The main difference between the two is the new techniques I learnt in photoshop, as my college magazine cover is very simple and doesn't really stand out. Meanwhile my music magazine cover features a much cleaner look that suits a magazine. I learnt how to shade properly to make the main story stand out on the page a lot more instead of fading into the background. It can be seen that my college magazine's photo doesn't fill the full cover and leaves the mast head and magazine name alone. I'm glad I learnt how to rectify that in my music magazine as they 1) fit in with the background and 2) fit in with the main image.

My photoshop skills have definitely developed and improved from my orignal attempt at a magazine front cover. Overall I must say that with my final front cover there's not really anything I would change, I know it isn't the best but I feel what I've come up with fits the genre I picked and the theme of the magazine. I knew that from the start I wanted to use a background for my final front cover as with the preliminary task I feel the background didn't fit the style. The college front cover helped me realise what I wanted to do for the main task and how to improve on what I previously used in order to use it for my music magazine. I also needed my college magzine cover in order for me to understand that editing the main image would be the best thing to improve the overall front cover.

I knew I had to develop my understanding of music magazine headlines and stories so I could make mine seem realistic. For this I thought and studied what my potential stories could be so it fit the theme of a music magazine. I also needed to study other front covers to see the common similarities and the best ways to present cover stories so I could implement them in my own.