Evaluation question 7

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

I feel I have come a long way sine my preliminary task, as my Photoshop skills have greatly improved and my idea of what a magazine looks like has got a lot better. When I did my Preliminary task I thought that the more that was on the page meant it was better, I have found that this is not the case as magazines actually looks a lot better if they have less on and are cleaner. One major thing I have learnt is that colour schemes are very important and the colour used will make a massive difference to the magazine, it is good to get a theme and stick to it. Another main thing that I have learnt is that the picture needs to be of great quality and the best picture you can get, in my preliminary task the picture wasn't great as I don't believe I took enough pictures, this is why I learnt to take as many pictures as possible so you have more to choose from, the more the better.  

 Here is my final front cover and my preliminary task front cover, as you can see my final front cover looks so much better than the preliminary task, it looks a lot more professional and just miles better. The colour scheme for my preliminary task doesn't really go and it isn't set out very well at all, also the picture is not of very good quality. My final picture on the other hand looks very good and the layout is much, much better, in my final I now have a house colour of red and blue were as in my preliminary there was no real theme to it. Also from research into magazines, I found that in my preliminary task, my bar-code was not in the correct place as this is never seen in any magazines, this was fixed in my final piece.

Here is my preliminary contents page and my final contents page, for a start I have learnt how to actually make it look like a magazine #, my preliminary task did not look at all like a magazine but my final does. The images are clearer on my final this is because I learnt to take my time with the pictures and make sure I got them right. Another thing that I learnt from researching magazines was that they actually have a lot more pages than I originally thought as in my preliminary task I hardly had any pages, I made sure to add many more in my final piece. Also I added a lot more picture just like in real magazines. I think I have progressed a lot since my preliminary task and i am very happy with the out come of my final piece.