Emily Hodgson- AS Media StudiesQuestion 5

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you

feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full

product?

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From my preliminary task (creating a college magazine) I think I have progressed massively in designing and applying conventional features to the front cover, contents page and double page spread.

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Question 5

In my preliminary task, when designing my college magazine I didn't’t realize and appreciate the importance of different fonts, images, embedded messages and colours. So therefore my colour scheme and images used were randomly selected and weren't particularly appealing to anyone specific. I also only used basic conventional items like: masthead, date, issue number, barcode, main image and sell lines.

So from the preliminary task I have learnt the importance of the codes of colour, the style of font and the poses used in the images.

Now in my evaluation task I use a variation of poses like over the shoulder, super smiler and invitational. Since my target audience is 11 to 16 females the images used have to be appropriate.

I then do research into what certain colours represent and what they are associated with. This helped me with my choice of colours for my magazine.