Evaluation question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

By comparing these two covers I have obviously improved at designing and producing a front cover. If we focus firstly on the preliminary cover there are many faults that would not get a very good grade if I had submitted that as my final piece. I have not adressed capitals and lower case, I have not alligned any of the text or thought about its position on the page. I have not cut out Becca accuratley as I can still see a bit of the brick wall that was originally behind her. I also had taken roughly ten shots of Becca so there was no way I had enough choice to chose an appropriate front cover picture for my prelim. I had also not thought about the mise en scene and not chosen appropriate clothes for Becca to wear, also due to poor planning I had not chose a colour scheme so I just went with what matched with Becca's jumper on the day! Basically my overall thoughts looking back on my prelim are that it looks like it could have been done on paint.

If we look at my current front cover it is evident a lot of thought has gone into the layout, colour scheme, masthead, mise on scene, camera angle and feature artist. I have alligned the image and text of Sara directly to the middle to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible. I also edited the picture to make it look as professional as possible. I also used fonts that aren't deafault on most computers so that it would look more original. Also indicating that this is a music magazine by writing famous popstars names in the background.

(I'm aware I need to go into more detail with my contents as well as both my covers)