Question 7

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

       PRELIM FRONT COVER                    MAIN FRONT COVER

 Since I first designed my prelim magazine front cover to my main magazine cover. I have learnt a huge variety of different editing skills. I have looked at a huge range of magazine that have had an input on to my final design of my main front cover. I mainly looked at magazines such as ‘NME’ as rock is the genre of my magazine. By doing this research it had an input of the colour scheme that I have used throughout my magazine.  In my prelim cover I just used basic font styles, the magazine did not really have a very good colour scheme as I just decided to use the first colour that I tried out, where as now I have been able to get a colour scheme by looking around at different magazines and trying out different colours before I chose the ones I am using now. The colours what I used are white and a brownish gold, this is so that the text stands out off the background therefore attracting the attention of the reader. Some of the skills that I have learnt was how to added different affects around my text such as shadows, colour overlays, bevel and emboss. I have also learnt how to add affects to my image as I added a grain affect to make my image look vintage. I have learnt how to add a number of layers to this makes my magazine look more professional. So all in all I have used a much larger advanced range of skills and magazine conventions on my main cover and also on my content and double page spread, this making it look a lot more professional then when I only knew how to use basic skills on my prelim.