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7) 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 at the start i thought it would be alot easier that i first expected. The Preliminary task only needed a background immage - possible medium or extreme close up. Once this had been added - we then needed to ad text box's and a title. This was nothing compared with the progression to our Major AS task. Personally i felt at the time of my Preliminary task - i belived i had come up with a substantional piece of work. Looking back on my progress now to my media product (music Magazine) it has made me realise how poor it was to my final Major Task. Below is an image of my Preliminary task:

i took some pictures around our school/collage _ as the Title breif was to create a school/collage front cover for a school magazine. bellow are images i had taken:

I used these pictures in my Preliminary task as they related to a school/collgae and the task was for a school's magazine front cover. once i had completed the task, and began to design my major task, i realised how hard it can be to design a proffessional looking cover to my music magazine. I new the basics of Adobe InDesign so i had a ruff idea how i wanted my design to look, by using images from festivals eg bellow is my picture of Deadmau5 on stage when i took the image with his agreement:

this would be my main focus point to my front cover. I belive it works really well and the Red hat he is wearing contrasted with the yellow top band with my special slogan in it. it also contrasts with his name which i typed in bold white - to stand out from the dark background. This then brightened my ideas by looking for the front cover i wanted and bellow is what i found to guide me along through my designing:

Once i put all of my ideas together i came up with this as my front cover:

Once i had this as my finished front cover design - the other pages i found easy - using the image bellow, it inspired my with my contents, and bellow that is what i had created:

I used Constrasting electric Green as a border - but kept the relations between the yellow text box's - relating to the Reading logo on my front cover:

Once i had both my front cover and my contents, i then moved on using Reading festival as the main focus point of my media product (music magazine - BASS MAX') and designed my final two page (double) spread. I used pictures of festivals - Dj's and using text box's with slogans etc. Bellow is my design:

Overall - looking back at my Preliminary task, i feel i have learnt alot about Adobe InDesign and i belive i have deffinatly progressed from my first task - to my major task. And equally belive my product is of high standard!