Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt from the progression from it to the full product?

I think I have improved a lot since doing my preliminary task and have learnt a lot as I think that my finished product looks like a real magazine cover looks like.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt from the progression from it to the full product?

Overall I have learnt just how much the masthead means to the magazine as it will be the first thing that a reader would notice and it needs to be something individual and relevant to the theme of the magazine. It also needs to be something that will be remembered as it will be aiming to be a top selling magazine.

The sell lines need to be interesting, although they cant give away too much on what the story is about but still needs to give away enough to make the reader want to know more. I think in the full product I have made the sell lines rhyme which I also think would draw the reader in as it sounds fun.

My main image needs to draw the readers attention and has to also be as interesting as the sell lines because whether the reader doesn’t want to read on because they don’t like the sell line, then the picture might still make them read on. I think I was successful at making the main image interesting as I took my time on designing what the model would look like and how she was going to pose.  

I have learnt that the subsidiary images are used to also draw readers to buy the magazine and to make the front cover more interesting.

I know the colour scheme for the front cover needs to be relevant to the theme the magazine is going to be about. E.g. a heavy metal shouldn’t have a pink and purple colour scheme as it isn’t the stereotypical colours for this genre. Dark colours like deep red and black would be appropriate whereas mine is a pop magazine and it uses lighter colours to make the magazine appealing.

Adverts for prizes and competitions are also important as people like free things and also like to win. People also like to feel they can also get involved with the magazine and like to participate with what the magazine has to offer, like competitions. 

My article almost finished, I just need to re-arrange my pictures.

This is my final front cover

2 More Photo's For My Contents Page

This is for my nicki minaj story

This is for my Rihanna story