Question 7: Draft

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, I can see that I've learnt a lot throughout the duration of my coursework. The quality of my work has improved when we compare my preliminary task and my full product.

Front Cover

The image on the left is the front cover that I have made for my preliminary task and the image on the right is the front cover I made for my full product. Just looking at it generally, I think my full product looks much better and professional. First of all, the masthead in my preliminary task is plain and boring. It is placed at the top centre of my magazine front cover and doesn't look particularly eye-catching. On the other hand, my 'FLOWLY' masthead looks a lot my professional. It is place in the top left corner of the front cover and looks like there was more thought and work put into it. I think it looks more unique and cleaner as opposed to my preliminary task, so I see a significant improvement there.

Next, I will be looking at the cover lines. In my preliminary task my cover lines do not look very organised and I think the mix of black and white in the cover lines did not fit in well. At the time of actually making this front cover, I thought the cover lines looked quite nice and couldn't think of much to improve my work. Now looking at my full product, we can see the cover lines are more organised and fit in with the colour scheme much better. So overall, I think my cover lines have improved a lot since the preliminary task.

Lastly, looking at the photography, we can instantly see there is a much bigger difference. First of all, in my preliminary task it looks like the main image was just slumped at the back of all the text which doesn't look good. Looking at my full product, we can see that I have now added layers to my main image and my cover star looks much more involved in the front cover rather than being in the background of all that text. Secondly, we can see that the quality of the photo has improved much more. The main image in my full product looks clear and has a clean plain background as opposed to the main image in my preliminary task. 

Contents Page

I think that looking at my contents page generally, the difference between my contents page in the preliminary task and my full product is even greater than in my front covers. Firstly, I think the most significant difference is the most important one; in my full product, my contents page has more content. My preliminary tasks' biggest flaw is that there was very little content in it, and this made it look less professional. In my full product I have added much more content and even had to make it a double page contents page as opposed to the one page in my preliminary task.

Also, another thing that I have done in my full product is add more photographs. Not only have I added more photographs, but they are also a much better quality than the photograph used for my preliminary task. In my preliminary task I have only used one photo and it is low quality which is something that needed improvement. Therefore, I added more photos in my full product of higher quality which I think made a significant improvement in my contents page.