Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do

you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to

the full product?

Front Cover

Preliminary Main

Contents Page

Preliminary Main

From the start of creating my school magazine my knowledge of using InDesign has increased considerably. For example I now know how to make elements of my magazine stand out more by using drop shadows and outer glows. In addition to this, I have increased my knowledge on how to select parts of photos using the quick selection tool in order to cut things out on Photoshop. An example of this would be the CD used for my contents page which gives the magazine a more dynamic composition than my school magazine. I've also learnt how to download newer more interesting fonts from dafont.com, increasing the visual appeal of my magazine. As well as this, the complexity of my page layout has increased as I've learned how to use layers in Photoshop more effectively. I feel I have used more of a variety of techniques than my preliminary task. For example I have included quotes, freebies and more information to appeal to the audience where as my preliminary task lacked this. The images taken for the preliminary task I feel didn’t give as strong as impact as the main task. By using a digital camera rather than a phone was partly due to my lack of experience and also I believe I have thought about the mise-en-scene, costumes and props into much more detail than the preliminary task.

Overall my understanding of many software's has improved greatly throughout this project because at the start I'd barely used software's such as InDesign and now I have produced a professional looking magazine using it. Also I feel I have a greater understanding and knowledge on how to produce a music magazine as my main task looks much more interesting and links much better to what it is about this is due to my improvement and development you can clearly tell in comparison to the preliminary task.