Evaluation - question seven

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

My preliminary task consisted of creating a front cover draft and contents page draft for a college magazine. This was to give me a chance to develop some skills and a rough understanding of the process of creating a magazine and the software used, before embarking on the real task of creating a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine.

Now looking back at my pre lim task and comparing it to my finished music magazine, I am able to identify what I learnt and how I progressed along this process. You can see one of the main differences between the two is the content. There is a large lack of detail in the front cover and contents page of the college magazine compared to my music magazine, showing how spending a large amount of time researching and preparing for the creation of a magazine really helps you to produce rich, detailed and accurate content. The general style of my pre lim task was very minimal, and this is obvious now that I compare it to my finished music magazine. I think this is partly because the process of creating my music magazine pages meant I had the time to establish a consistent style and format, including layout, font and colour schemes. I definitely used Photoshop and other technologies to a much higher and in depth level, this is obvious when you compare my finished product to the pre lim task, as I feel it looks a lot more professional and more varied features are used, such as the main image covering the masthead, text boxes, and extra images. I believe there are some similarities between my preliminary task and my final product, for example, they both have font and colour schemes that compliment the target audience and genre, and they both have one main subject to focus the reader’s attention on. You can clearly see how my technical skills, creativity and organisation has improved from the pre lim task to the end of the main task. I am very happy with the progress made and feel as if the preliminary task was a great basis for me to develop my skills against.