Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression

from it to the full product?

My Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task, I had to produce a front cover and contents page for a sixth form magazine, therefore my target audience were students and my secondary audience were friends and family of students. The magazine genre contrasts greatly with my final product of a music magazine but the same aspects were to be thought about, therefore I found it extremely useful making a sixth form magazine as I understood basic codes and conventions which are present over all genres of magazines. Analysing the sixth form magazine [click here to see my annotations] which I had made also helped me to further understand how to represent genre and how to attract my target audience.

Front Cover

Front Cover

I think that I improved on my skills to develop a successful front page for a magazine, as my music magazine looks more professional and includes many more codes and conventions than my sixth form magazine. Firstly, I have included puffs on my final product which stand out and can be identified easily by the reader. Puffs boast about other content of the magazine therefore may attract a larger audience. Also, I have used both a tagline which is in the position of a skyline and also another runner across the bottom of my magazine which gives it an overall more professional look