During my preliminary task, it was mainly figuring out how to use photoshop, and styling a magazine basing on what I thought a magazine would look like. My preliminary task had a lack of colour and didn't stand out enough, also the layouts weren't what would be expected from a successful magazine. During the process of research inbetween the preliminary task and the full product, all the research enabled me to really get to grips with how a successful magazine looks and works. I took a lot of inspiration from Q magazine, and really looked at how they styled their magazines. From doing this research I got a better idea of how to set out my layout on all 3 of my pages, and an idea for what the text should say. I also got inspiration about how to style my model, looking at many magazines and looking at what colours their models were wearing and which colours really worked well. I took inspiration from a wide variety of magazines to help come up with my final colour scheme, I looked at how certain colours worked well together, and what sort of model should be used against certain colour schemes. In the end I decided to go with a colour scheme which I saw on a Q magazine front cover, this magazine was mainly white black and red, but had very small amounts of a light aqua blue which just added the extra bit of colour but didn't make the page look tacky or too overloaded.
My knowledge and understanding of how magazines work has drastically improved, and I believe this is shown in the drastic change from my preliminary task and my full product.
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