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

I learnt different skills after developing my college magazine into my music magazine. The first step I improved and learnt from was the text and layout for example the text of the title, price and image. Plus editing my photography in my music magazine, I based my magazine photos on other special edition magazines for instance MIA’s NME front cover where there is obvious challenging the establishment of most other magazines by just looking at the picture. This meant I could make sure that I got across individual style. My final cover and products I improved how to use photo shop a lot. I managed to use better effects and layouts using adjustment tool which had contrast and brightness on to improve my photographs. I used certain colours like red, black and white to show also it’s for the individual style. I tried to make the magazine looking professional and kept the theme of black and white pictures, text sizes (font) and colours in all three pages. I tried to get it similar to the NME special edition magazine as close as possible but also looked at other magazines such as ‘Q’ and ‘Spin’ to develop more understanding of my final product.