During the production of my preliminary task it allowed me to understand the basic conventions used in a magazine cover, for example a masthead, cover lines, and the way the writing is on the cover. By producing this basic cover with the little knowledge I had it allowed me to understand the programs and technologies used to create the magazine. By doing the preliminary task it helped me to make my actual magazine look more realistic and believable. By using pull quotes it helped me to entice the reader, in the preliminary task my pull quotes were longer and not as punchy and this may make the reader get bored, and also it doesn't look as professional or as realistic. I noticed this when I was doing research for my real magazine and I used the experience of creating my preliminary magazine to make my actual magazine look like a real magazine.
I also learnt that house style is very important, you don't want to have lots of random colours, you need to have a structure and base behind the style of writing and the colours used. In my preliminary task I Used a variety of different colours, although this didn't look very professional it helped me to realise what colours stood out well and made the magazine look realistic. The use of font also determined whether the magazine looked realistic or not, I also found a font for my writing that also went along with the country theme as well as making the magazine look realistic.
The preliminary task also helped me to get an understanding of the programs that would be used and decide, what program was best for different things throughout the production. By using these programs I was able to make my main magazine look more realistic and the experience before hand definitely helped me throughout this process.
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