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

In comparrison to each other my initial music magazine cover titled 'Feel Alive' uses very basic photoshop skills for example shape tools and merely increasing the contrast in order to make the cover extrememly bright. I felt this would attract a young audience. However my recent and final music magazine cover explores a more darker side to youth which i felt would be more successful at attracting my indie audience.

Looking at my finished piece of media, i can now see that i have a better understanding of the mise-en-scene of my images such as eye contact, body language, facial expression, shot distance and angle. The colour even seems to have an influence of the suggesting particular moods and emotions.
The mode of address is also important and you need to be able to communicate to the reader effectively. These include techniques such as rhetorical questions and specialist language which relates to the target audience.
Having a neat and attractive layout for a media product is also important and very effective as it promotes a higher quality. However following this assumption modern magazines also adopt a messier appearence in order to attract a younger audiences.

As you can see from my initial magazine, my photoshop skills are quite basic. I haven't used any white space which makes it appear unprofessional and the entire products appears quite basic and ameture.