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

From my preliminary task I have learnt that being able to set things out well on one page is quite hard, in my preliminary task I tried to minimise the amount of text on the cover due to it looking cluttered though whilst doing my main task I realised it was due to the size of my image and colour of my background. If your colouring is too dark or you have a very complex image it makes it harder to add text on to it and that is the reason I added in the bubble shapes in my main task as my image was still too dark yet I did not want to alter it too much. I found out that the type face is quite an important factor, if you do not vary it or use different sizes within your work then it often looks too similar and quite plain. You need to use a wide range to get people's attention. You also need to have more than 2 sizes on font, in my preliminary I did not use many different sizes and therefore it did not look as effective as I wanted it too. I did not realise why this was until doing more thorough research into music magazine's and seeing the variation. Also without a tag line under the mast head, your front page often looks quite plain and it does not have quite so much of an edge or individuality. A tag line is often something that influences someones choice in magazine and gives an insight into the magazine itself. I did not include one on my preliminary and once again through research I learnt how important they are and what type of tag line I should include.